#AI#EU#AIAct#Biometrics#Surveillance#MassSurveillance: "Throughout spring 2024, European Union (EU) lawmakers have been taking the final procedural steps to pass a largely disappointing new law, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.
This law is expected to come into force in the summer, with one of the most hotly-contested parts of the law – the bans on unacceptably harmful uses of AI – slated to apply from the end of 2024 (six months and 20 days after the legal text is officially published).
The first draft of this Act, in 2021, proposed to ban some forms of public facial recognition, showing that lawmakers were already listening to the demands of our Reclaim Your Face campaign. Since then, the AI Act has continued to be a focus point for our fight to stop people being treated as walking barcodes in public spaces.
But after a gruelling three-year process, AI Act negotiations are coming to an underwhelming end, with numerous missed opportunities to protect people’s rights and freedoms or to uphold civic space.
One of the biggest problems we see is that the bans on different forms of biometric mass surveillance, or BMS, are full of holes. BMS is the term we’ve used as an umbrella for different methods of using people’s biometric data to surveil them in an untargeted or arbitrarily-targeted way – which have no place in a democratic society."
❌ turn EU's asylum database into a tool of #MassSurveillance
❌ record & process huge amounts of personal data about migrants and asylum seekers, which is intrusive & disproportionate
🇬🇧🙌 Fighting #masssurveillance pays off: German government will not reintroduce #dataretention but agrees to introduce #quickfreeze / data preservation powers instead.
A huge success and a clear signal to the entire #EU - drop #EUGoingDark now!
🚨 The #EURODAC expansion into a #MassSurveillance tool is a part of the wider #MigrationPact, which has some of harshest proposals in EU's migration policy history.
161 civil society groups are urging MEPs to reject the Pact in the @europarl_en vote ✊🏾
Anti-surveillance sticker spotted in Burnie, Tasmania.
We've got a bunch of copies of these stickers, and numerous other designs.
If anyone is interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out: https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com/
Stamp out government mass surveillance and censorship everywhere!
It's not just the Trumps, Orbans, Putins, Tusks, Modis, and Bolsonaros that we need to resist. Mass surveillance and censorship are hallmarks and weapons of totalitarianism police states. And both have been growing in popularity among liberals throughout the world, including most of the elected Democrats in the U.S.
The Government Really Is Spying On You... And It's "Legal" (though not ethical)
"Any nightmare use for data you can think of will probably eventually happen,” Tau said. “It might not happen immediately, but it’ll happen eventually.”
#EU#AI#AIAct#Biometrics#MassSurveillance#FacialRecognition: "On 8 December 2023, EU lawmakers celebrated reaching a deal on the long-awaited Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. Lead Parliamentarians reassured their colleagues that they had preserved strong protections for human rights, including ruling out biometric mass surveillance (BMS).
Yet despite the lawmakers’ bravado, the AI Act will not ban the vast majority of dangerous BMS practices. Instead, it will introduce – for the first time in the EU – conditions on how to use these systems. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and EU Member State ministers will vote on whether they accept the final deal in spring 2024.
🇩🇪Dank meiner #Piraten-Klage musste sich Meta heute vor Gericht für seine eigenmächtige #Chatkontrolle verantworten. Sie wollen ein Sachurteil mit allen Mitteln verhindern - und weigerten sich heute eine Unterlassungsverpflichtung abzugeben. Entscheidungstermin: 27. März.
🇬🇧Thanks to my #pirates lawsuit, Meta had to answer for its indiscriminate #chatcontrol#masssurveillance of all private messages in court today. They want to prevent a judgment on the merits by all means - and refused pledge to stop the practice today. Decision date: March 27.
#EU#AI#AIAct#Biometrics#MassSurveillance#FacialRecognition: "On 8 December 2023, EU lawmakers celebrated reaching a deal on the long-awaited Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. Lead Parliamentarians reassured their colleagues that they had preserved strong protections for human rights, including ruling out biometric mass surveillance (BMS).
Yet despite the lawmakers’ bravado, the AI Act will not ban the vast majority of dangerous BMS practices. Instead, it will introduce – for the first time in the EU – conditions on how to use these systems. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and EU Member State ministers will vote on whether they accept the final deal in spring 2024."
🇩🇪Ausgerechnet am Montag nach dem #Datenschutztag starten Abschlussverhandlungen über ein globales UN-#Überwachungsabkommen, genannt Cybercrimeabkommen. Jede Regierung weltweit - einschließlich Unrechtsregimes wie Russland und China - könnte damit unbemerkt Zugang zu unseren Daten und Echtzeitüberwachung verlangen mit der Begründung aller möglicher Straftaten und mit kaum Daten- und Grundrechtsschutz.
As a #Pirate, I call for an immediate halt to the negotiation of this UN surveillance treaty and instead negotiating an international #NoSpy treaty to protect us from #masssurveillance!
This paper is really important, presenting empirical evidence of the imbrication bet. AI & the surveillance biz model. This is notable particularly given that most production surveillance tech is proprietary, its existence and use hidden from the public.
@Mer__edith Well, it is up to us, by boycotting businesses that produce, research, use, employ, support, sell or buy that tech as well as consequently only accepting tech and solutions that make it hard if not nearly-impossible to do these kinds of #MassSurveillance...