22/04/2022 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 21 April the NGO network European Digital Rights (EDRi) called on MEPs to strengthen certain prohibitions in future legislation on artificial intelligence (AI) (see EUROPE 12928/24) to better protect human rights. EDRi believes that “red lines” should be introduced for, among other things, ‘place-based’ predictive policing, remote biometric identification, emotional recognition, discriminatory or manipulative biometric categorisation and uses of AI that undermine the right to asylum. “Living in a democracy means we should not be surveilled, monitored or judged by dubious technologies based on how we look. The draft report has not yet guaranteed us this basic freedom, but we remain confident that negotiators will introduce this protection in the coming months”, said Ella Jakubowska, policy advisor at EDRi. (TM)