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EURACTIV Technology @[email protected] · 2024-09-03 · 10:22 UTC

Dutch data protection watchdog hits Clearview AI with €30.5 million fine for misusing facial recognition data https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-privacy/news/dutch-data-protection-watchdog-hits-clearview-ai-with-e30-5-million-fine-for-misusing-facial-recognition-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #biometricdata #biometricidentification #Clearview #clearviewAI

#biometricdata #biometricidentification #clearview #clearviewai

Mark @[email protected] · 2023-06-14 · 12:22 UTC

MEPs endorse blanket ban on facial recognition in public spaces, rejecting targeted exemptions

#Biometrics or #FacialID has been often linked to #authoritarian regimes

The total ban is part of a draft piece of legislation, known as the Artificial Intelligence Act

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/06/14/meps-endorse-blanket-ban-on-facial-recognition-in-public-spaces-rejecting-targeted-exempti

#EuropeanUnion #AI #biometrics #BiometricIdentification #police #LawEnforcement #FacialID #BigBrother #Orwell #1984 #PoliceState #privacy

#privacy #policestate #orwell #bigbrother #lawenforcement #police

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 @[email protected] · 2023-06-12 · 00:11 UTC

(5/n)

...“Post” remote #BiometricIdentification systems, with the only exception of #lawrow enforcement for the prosecution of serious crimes and only after judicial authorization;

#BiometricCategorisation systems using sensitive characteristics (e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship status, religion, political orientation);

#PredictivePolicing systems (based on profiling, location or past criminal behaviour);

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#biometricidentification #lawrow #biometriccategorisation #predictivepolicing

rexi @[email protected] · 2023-05-16 · 06:50 UTC

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/european-parliament-committees-vote-ai-act/

a massive win for civil society, as EU #AIAct incorporates vital #humanrights safeguards…bans on remote #biometricidentification, #emotionrecognition, racist and discriminatory biometric categorization, #predictivepolicing, and mass biometric #datascraping…"The plenary vote is the Parliament’s last chance to ban dangerous, inherently discriminatory #AIsystems that are used in the migration context, and to counter efforts to exclude migrant people and racialised groups…”