EU's landmark new AI law bans social scoring, limits biometric identification

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EU's landmark new AI law bans social scoring, limits biometric identification

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lemmy.world

"biometric categorisation systems based on sensitive characteristics and untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases,"

Bad headline. Good law.

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sh.itjust.works

Social scoring? Like the black mirror episode? Is anyone trying to implement it for it to be getting banned?

gwildors_gill_slits reply

lemmy.ca

Well yes, in China.

Anekdoteles reply

feddit.de

Yaeh, in "China".

maynarkh reply

feddit.nl

Or algorithmic credit scores like in the US.

Shyfer reply

ttrpg.network

Also the community episode

InFerNo

lemmy.ml

Meanwhile it forced fingerprints on your ID card..

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feddit.de

What does that have to do with AI?

zik reply

lemmy.world

I guess it's more about the "limits biometric identification" part of the title.

InFerNo reply

lemmy.ml

I thought that was obvious to anyone reading at least the title.