Recognising the potential threat to citizens’ rights and democracy posed by certain applications of AI, the European Parliament co-legislators have agreed to prohibit:biometric categorisation systems that use sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, race);untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases;emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions;social scoring based on social behaviour or personal characteristics;AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).
