EU Parliament calls for ban on predictive policing

The European Parliament has called for bans on predictive policing and biometric mass surveillance. In a resolution adopted on Tuesday, MEPs also voted to prohibit social scoring systems, the use of AI in judicial decisions, and private facial recognition databases — like the ClearviewAI system. A majority of lawmakers (377 to 248) backed the wide-ranging resolution on the use of AI in criminal law and policing. Bulgarian MEP Petar Vitanov, the resolution’s author, called the vote “a huge win” for European citizens: For the first time ever, we are calling for a moratorium on the deployment of facial recognition systems…

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