EU reaches deal on technical details of AI Act, biometric surveillance criticism remains
The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act entered its final stages last Friday as EU countries agreed on its technical details….
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EU’s biometric passport checks could lead to limits for Eurostar passenger numbers
The European Union’s planned Entry/Exit System (EES) could cause hour-long queues for the Eurostar railway service in the UK and…
EU reverses Bulgarian life sentence for biometric criminal records
The EU’s Court of Justice has given bloc nations flexibility to decide when criminals’ biometric identifiers can be destroyed. Even…
EU plan to reform asylum and migrant biometrics collection still in the works
The European Union is inching towards finalizing the European Asylum and Migration Pact, a complex package of asylum and migration…
Countdown for businesses to comply with leaked EU AI Act draft begins
An alleged draft of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act has been leaked online on Monday, shedding light on how…
EU lawmaker: AI Act facial recognition loopholes are an ‘attack on civil rights’
The European Union is introducing a loophole in the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act that allows law enforcement agencies to use…
VEDLIoT project promises secure and privacy-focused facial recognition
An EU-funded project, VEDLIoT (Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT), has been introduced to address the challenges associated with implementing…
EU’s biometric Entry/Exit System may have a launch date
The European Union’s biometric-based Entry/Exit System (EES) may have finally received its launch date. The much-delayed travel regime is due…
EU’s provisional AI Act deal limits remote biometrics use after marathon negotiation
After a three-day marathon negotiation, the European Union has finally reached a provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act. Late…
AI Act stumbles over provisional deal with biometrics among main culprits
Biometric surveillance and generative AI are again proving to be stumbling blocks as lawmakers hammer out a provisional deal for…
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