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 …
Tag: biometric surveillance
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 …
Breyer: Von der Leyen has simply not understood the digital age
Today, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual State of the European Union address to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg. In her speech, she hailed adopted (Digital …
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, …
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 …
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 …
EU governments open the door for biometric mass surveillance in public spaces
Today, the EU Council Presidency’s proposal for a regulation on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was leaked. Patrick Breyer, German Pirate Member of the European …
Internal LIBE meeting with US Homeland Security: Plans for biometric databases put EU citizens’ data at risk
Yesterday, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) had an informal meeting with representatives of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During the …