Pirates: AI Act fails to protect citizens’ rights
Today, MEPs shall approve the outcome of the trilogue negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), establishing new rules that shall regulate the use of artificial intelligence in the …
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Pirates don’t support flawed AI Act
Today, the European Parliament’s lead committees on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the IMCO and LIBE committees, approved the trilogue results of the law in a joint vote. In …
Historic vote: EU Parliament to ban biometric mass surveillance
Strasbourg, 14/06/2023 – Today, the European Parliament voted to ban real-time facial surveillance in public spaces in the EU’s new Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Automated behavioural surveillance, on the other hand, …
Artificial intelligence: We are no longer free under constant surveillance!
On the day before the crucial vote on the European Parliament‘s negotiating mandate on artificial intelligence, Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer levelled serious accusations against EU governments, the EU Commission …
AI Act: For a Europe free of dystopian mass surveillance!
Brussels, 07/06/2023 – One week before the plenary vote on the new EU regulation on artificial intelligence (the AI Act), biometric mass surveillance turns out to be the main point …
AI Act: Lead committees to ban facial surveillance in Europe
Today, the two lead committees of the European Parliament voted to fully ban biometric mass surveillance in Europe’s public spaces, namely by using the controversial facial recognition technology. The decision …
Expect biometric mass surveillance in Paris in 2024: French Parliament approves automated monitoring of public spaces for „suspicious behaviour“
Against AI mass surveillance in Paris 2024: 41 MEPs address French Parliament
Today, 41 MEPs from different political groups address the French Parliament with an open letter (version française). In the letter, the MEPs call on the …
AI Act: EU governments open door for biometric mass surveillance in public spaces
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Today the ministers of the 27 Member States agreed on a general approach (i.e. a common position) on the future AI Act – the EU law that will regulate artificial …
EU lawmakers and civil society call on Member States for a strong ban on biometric mass surveillance as the negotiations on the AI Act come to a close
Yesterday, several EU parliament negotiators on the AI Act from Socialists and Democrats, Greens/EFA, Renew and The Left groups gathered in the European Parliament to discuss how far the AI …