European Commission Proposes Taking Away the Cops' Big Boy Surveillance Machine - Gizmodo
European Commission Proposes Taking Away the Cops' Big Boy Surveillance Machine - Gizmodo European Commission Proposes Taking Away the Cops' Big Boy Surveillance Machine - Gizmodo Posted: 21 Apr 2021 12:40 PM PDT Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images) The EU is giving the U.S. a run for its money with privacy regulation, and now they've upped the ante with a dynamo of a proposal : banishing AI systems that violate "fundamental rights," with a special place in hell for law enforcement using real-time biometric identification. The end of that sentence is more of a personal interpretation, but the gist is that it's time to end the free-for-all. Advertisement The sweeping list of protected freedoms in the proposal includes the right to human dignity, respect for privacy, non-discrimination, gender equality, freedom of expression (infringed by the "chilling effect" of surveill...