MEPs call for European AI rules to ban biometric surveillance in public
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MEPs call for European AI rules to ban biometric surveillance in public
A cross-party group of 40 MEPs in the European parliament has called on the Commission to strengthen an incoming legislative proposal on artificial intelligence to include an outright ban on the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric surveillance in public places.
They have also urged EU lawmakers to outlaw automated recognition of people’s sensitive characteristics (such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, health status and disability) -- warning that such AI-fuelled practices pose too great a rights risk and can fuel discrimination.
The Commission is expected to presented its proposal for a framework to regulate 'high risk' applications of AI next week -- but a copy of the draft leaked this week (via Politico). And, as we reported earlier, this leaked draft does not include a ban on the use of facial recognition or similar biometric remote identification technologies in public places, despite acknowledging the strength of public concern over the issue.
"Biometric mass surveillance technology in publicly accessible spaces is widely being criticised for wrongfully reporting large numbers of innocent citizens, systematically discriminating against under-represented groups and having a chilling effect on a free and diverse society. This is why a ban is needed," the MEPs write now in a letter to the Commission which they've also made public.
They go on to warn over the risks of discrimination through automated inference of people's sensitive characteristics -- such as in applications like predictive policing or the indiscriminate monitoring and tracking of populations via their biometric characteristics.
"This can lead to harms including violating rights to privacy and data protection; suppressing free speech; making it harder to expose corruption; and have a chilling effect on everyone’s autonomy, dignity and self-expression – which in particular can seriously harm LGBTQI+ communities, people of colour, and other discriminated-against groups," the MEPs write, calling on the Commission to amend the AI proposal to outlaw the practice in order to protect EU citizens' rights and the rights of communities who faced a heightened risk of discrimination (and therefore heightened risk from discriminatory tools supercharged with AI).
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