{"id":124051,"date":"2021-06-21T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/eu-data-watchdogs-want-ban-on-ai-facial-recognition"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:22:54","slug":"eu-data-watchdogs-want-ban-on-ai-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/eu-data-watchdogs-want-ban-on-ai-facial-recognition","title":{"rendered":"EU data watchdogs want ban on AI facial recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eu-data-watchdogs-want-ban-on-ai-facial-recognition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s data protection agencies on Monday called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the \u201cextremely high\u201d risks to privacy.<\/p>\n<p>In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a \u201cgeneral ban\u201d on the practice that would include \u201crecognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioural signals, in any context\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Such practices \u201cinterfere with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fundamental+rights\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental rights<\/a> and freedoms to such an extent that they may call into question the essence of these rights and freedoms,\u201d the heads of the European Data Protection Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s data protection agencies on Monday called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the \u201cextremely high\u201d risks to privacy. In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a \u201cgeneral ban\u201d on the practice that would include \u201crecognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}