Surveillance and AI

Sarah Chander, Senior Policy Adviser, EDRi, and Alyna Smith, Deputy Director, PICUM, EuroNews, As AI Act vote nears, the EU needs to draw a red line on racist surveillance, 25 April 2023 “Lawmakers have taken steps that would ban certain uses of AI when “incompatible with fundamental rights”. This is the case for some uses of facial recognition to identify people in public places and AI systems used to predict where and by whom crimes may occur.”