MEPs endorse blanket ban on facial recognition in public spaces
MEPs endorse blanket ban on facial recognition in public spaces
Members of the European Parliament endorsed on Wednesday a blanket ban on AI-powered facial recognition in public spaces. #EuropeNews
Thank fuck. Now kill Chat Control.
What is an MEP?
Member of the European Parliament.
The European Parliament is an important forum for political debate and decision-making at the EU level. The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make sure other EU institutions are working democratically.
Source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en
Just don't ask me what other branches and divisions the EU government has 😅 I'm hilariously badly informed on how the system actually works, forgot all my civics lessons from 20+ years ago
Member of European Parliament. It's somewhat analogous to a US House member.
Cries in UK where AI has already been used to ensure no such restrictions apply here.
I went to a gas station that had facial recognition cameras. They cited theft, but also their "legitimate interest", using website cookie language - only there was no easily apparent way to object to their legitimate interest.
What we really need is legislation. The law needs to recognise that businesses cannot just steal data from people for free for their own profits - not to mention exploiting that data against the data subject.
If you build and sell a car, you have to pay for the nuts and bolts. You can't just take them and say "well, you wouldn't know how to build a car, and they only cost a tiny, tiny amount, so we don't need to pay you."
Personal data has value. So much value, the businesses that focus on collecting it are some of the wealthiest in the world. We are all being robbed.
It sounds like a good step, but I'm sad it seems to only specify "AI-Powered". We've had effective methods of bulk facial recognition for years without "AI". Not AS effective, maybe, but definitely effective enough. Also, I didn't see in the linked article - did they define "AI" well? I guess I feel like it would be easy to bypass that definition.
It's the article inserting buzzwords. The EU banned "the use of real-time biometrics in public spaces".
You can still run facial recognition on specific pictures or video that has the perp of a crime on it, you just can't do it to everyone all the time.