Police and national security bodies in the EU will be banned from using real-time biometric data driven by artificial intelligence in most circumstances without having judicial authorisation, it has emerged.
The ban on “Big Brother” surveillance will apply in public and private places, ranging from parks to sports grounds, except in the event of specified serious crimes, a terrorist threat or urgent searches for victims.
The exceptions were terrorism, murder, rape, organised or armed robbery, grievous bodily injury, child sexual abuse, kidnapping, hostage taking, crimes under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, unlawfully seizing aircraft or ships, sabotage, trafficking human beings, body parts, illegal drugs, weapons or radioactive material, and participation in a criminal organisation involved in one of those offences.
The EU insisted on this in the final text amid fears that such AI-derived data would be used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people with respect to their age, disability, or social or economic situation.
Emotional recognition artificial intelligence, which can read people’s facial expressions in real time to assess stress or fatigue, will also be prohibited in the workplace.
MEPs leading the fight for prohibitions were determined to ensure that the EU did not turn into a surveillance state like China, where traffic police can intervene, for example, if they think a lorry driver is tired.
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Police and national security bodies in the EU will be banned from using real-time biometric data driven by artificial intelligence in most circumstances without having judicial authorisation, it has emerged.
The ban on “Big Brother” surveillance will apply in public and private places, ranging from parks to sports grounds, except in the event of specified serious crimes, a terrorist threat or urgent searches for victims.
The exceptions were terrorism, murder, rape, organised or armed robbery, grievous bodily injury, child sexual abuse, kidnapping, hostage taking, crimes under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, unlawfully seizing aircraft or ships, sabotage, trafficking human beings, body parts, illegal drugs, weapons or radioactive material, and participation in a criminal organisation involved in one of those offences.
The EU insisted on this in the final text amid fears that such AI-derived data would be used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people with respect to their age, disability, or social or economic situation.
Emotional recognition artificial intelligence, which can read people’s facial expressions in real time to assess stress or fatigue, will also be prohibited in the workplace.
MEPs leading the fight for prohibitions were determined to ensure that the EU did not turn into a surveillance state like China, where traffic police can intervene, for example, if they think a lorry driver is tired.
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