The ban would include any AI that would ‘categorise individuals into clusters based on ethnicity, gender, political or sexual orientation’, the statement said. — AFP Relaxnews
BRUSSELS: The EU’s data protection agencies on June 21 called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the “extremely high” risks to privacy.
In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a “general ban" on the practice that would include “recognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioural signals, in any context”.
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