EU watchdogs want ban on AI recognition in public places
Artificial intelligence (AI) based automated recognition of humans should be banned in public spaces, the EU´s two data protection organisations say in a joint statement.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have adopted a joint opinion on the European Commission’s proposal for harmonised rules on artificial intelligence .
”The EDPB and the EDPS strongly welcome the aim of addressing the use of AI systems within the European Union, including the use of AI systems by EU institutions, bodies or agencies. At the same time, the EDPB and EDPS are concerned by the exclusion of international law enforcement cooperation from the scope of the proposal.”
The EDPB and EDPS also stress the need to explicitly clarify that existing EU data protection legislation (GDPR, the EUDPR and the LED) applies to any processing of personal data falling under the scope of the draft AI Regulation.
”Taking into account the extremely high risks posed by remote biometric identification of individuals in publicly accessible spaces, the EDPB and the EDPS call for a general ban on any use of AI for automated recognition of human features in publicly accessible spaces, such as recognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioural signals, in any context.”
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