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The AI Act isn’t enough: closing the dangerous loopholes that enable rights violations
While the EU's AI Act aims to regulate high-risk AI systems, it is undermined by major loopholes that allow their unchecked use in the context of national security and law enforcement. These exemptions risk enabling, among others, mass surveillance of protests and discriminatory migration practices. To prevent this, EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan has published recommendations for Slovenia to adopt stricter national safeguards and transparent oversight mechanisms.
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A blueprint for success: How Danes je nov dan’s advocacy led to a commitment for a Public AI Registry in Slovenia
In Slovenia, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the public sector has been expanding without significant public oversight, creating the potential for harmful or even dangerous uses of AI systems. To close this gap, EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan launched an advocacy campaign calling for a national AI registry to ensure transparency and accountability. Their efforts led the Ministry of Digital Transformation to commit to establishing such a registry, a model that can inspire AI transparency initiatives across Europe.
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A new tool helps Slovenian public identify AI-generated content and educates about its risks
EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan recently launched Razkrinkaj.ai – an online tool that allows users to test their ability to recognise AI-generated content through an interactive quiz while learning about the risks and challenges associated with it.
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A new registry empowers the Slovenian public to monitor the use of AI systems by public institutions
EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan recently launched their Public Sector AI Registry. The platform provides insight into the use of AI systems by Slovenia’s public institutions and highlights the lack of transparency from officials.
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Eurodac: Council seeks swift agreement on expanded migrant biometric database
The Slovenian Presidency of the Council is planning to accelerate negotiations on a vast expansion of the Eurodac database, which will hold sensitive data on millions of asylum seekers and migrants in an irregular situation, by 'delinking' the proposed rules from other EU asylum and migration laws under discussion.
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Huawei captures Balkan’s hearts and minds
EDRi member Citizen D reveals Huawei's lobbying practices in Slovenia, where media outliets are siding with the Chinese tech company, whilst ignoring the company's human rights violations in China and the development of a city surveillance system in Belgrade.
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Slovenia: Data retention unconstitutional, deletion of data ordered
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia abrogated the data retention provisions of the Act on Electronic Communications (ZEKom-1) in its judgement U-I-65/13-19 of 3 July 2014 following the constitutional request lodged by the Information Commissioner in March 2013 and ECJ judgment of 8 April 2014 in Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12. The Court […]
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