May 10, 2022 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

Will the European Parliament stand up for our rights by prohibiting biometric mass surveillance in the AI Act?

On 10 May, EDRi and 52 organisations wrote to the Members of the European Parliament to ask them to ban the remote use of these technologies in publicly accessible spaces to protect all the places where we exercise our rights and come together as communities from becoming sites of mass surveillance where we are all treated as suspects.

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May 25, 2022 · Blogs | Highlights | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices

The AI Act: EU’s chance to regulate harmful border technologies

The AI Act will be the first regional mechanism of its kind in the world, but it needs a serious update to meaningfully address the profileration of harmful technologies tested and deployed at Europe’s borders.

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April 19, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Civil society urges European Parliament to protect people’s rights in the AI Act

In the run up to the AI Act vote in the European Parliament, civil society organisations call on the European Parliament to prioritise fundamental rights and protect people affected by artificial intelligence systems.

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April 25, 2023 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

As AI Act vote nears, the EU needs to draw a red line on racist surveillance

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act, commonly known as the AI Act, is the first of its kind. Not only will it be a landmark as the first binding legislation on AI in the world – it is also one of the first tech-focused laws to meaningfully address how technologies perpetuate structural racism.

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May 17, 2023 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI)

The EU must respect human rights of migrants in the AI Act

Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard has sent an open letter calling on the Rapporteurs and members of leading committees on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) to prohibit the use of certain artificial intelligence (AI) systems which are incompatible with human rights of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the AI Act.

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September 7, 2023 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI)

EU legislators must close dangerous loophole and protect human rights in the AI Act

Over 115 civil society organisations are calling on EU legislators to remove a major loophole in the high-risk classification process of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act and maintain a high level of protection for people’s rights in the legislation.

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April 21, 2022 · Blogs | Highlights | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

The European Parliament must go further to empower people in the AI act

Today, 21 April, POLITICO Europe published a leak of the much-anticipated draft report on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act proposal. The draft report has taken important steps towards a more people-focused approach, but it has failed to introduce crucial red lines and safeguards on the uses of AI, including ‘place-based’ predictive policing systems, remote biometric identification, emotion recognition, discriminatory or manipulative biometric categorisation, and uses of AI undermining the right to asylum.

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November 23, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

AI Act: What happens when lawmakers’ faces get scanned with face recognition algorithms?

EDRi member in Italy Hermes Center simulates face recognition on lawmakers to pressure them for a total ban of remote biometric identification (RBI) in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.

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December 9, 2023 · Press releases | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

EU AI Act: Deal reached, but too soon to celebrate

On 8 December 2023, following over 36 hours of negotiations, EU lawmakers finally cinched a deal on the Artificial Intelligence Act. However, whilst some fundamental rights protections have been won, the overall Act has not lived up to its potential to put people and their rights front and center.

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July 12, 2023 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Civil society calls on EU to protect people’s rights in the AI Act ‘trilogue’ negotiations

As EU institutions start decisive meetings on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, a broad civil society coalition is urging them to prioritise people and fundamental rights in this landmark legislation.

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September 20, 2023 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

EU lawmakers must regulate the harmful use of tech by law enforcement in the AI Act

115 civil society organisations are calling on EU lawmakers to to regulate the use of AI technology for harmful and discriminatory surveillance by law enforcement, migration authorities and national security forces in the AI Act.

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November 30, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

Civil society calls on the EU to put fundamental rights first in the AI Act

Today, 30 November 2021, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and 119 civil society organisations launched a collective statement to call for an Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) which foregrounds fundamental rights. 

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