EU bodies call for facial recognition ban in public

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have supported the call on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on the use of artificial intelligence technologies but expressed concern by the exclusion of international law enforcement cooperation from the scope of the proposal. The EDPB and EDPS go further than the  European Commission’s proposal for a regulation issued in April — urging that the planned legislation should be broader to include 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.’ Read the EDPB release here and the Proposal here.