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AI Act threatens to make facial surveillance commonplace in Europe
In the final stage of negotiations on the EU's AI Act, it has become known that even the publicly announced limitation of the controversial facial recognition technology to the prosecution of serious criminal offences has since fallen. Digital freedom fighter and Member of the European Parliament Pa
“With this AI law, it appears the EU intends to compete with China not only technologically but also in terms of high-tech repression. The fact that error-prone facial recognition applied to CCTV recordings is being green-lighted for petty offences falls short of the EU Parliament’s own press release. This will make it possible for cities to oust homeless people under the heading of ‘trespassing’, as happened in Como, Italy, or to prosecute sprayers for ‘damaging property’.
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