On Thursday 16 January, around twenty European digital freedom NGOs published a joint statement calling on the European Commission to base future guidelines for applying the AI Act on respect for fundamental rights.
The 21 signatories want the Commission to put “human rights and justice” at the heart of the text, which is due to be presented in early February and which will detail prohibited AI practices.
The NGOs are calling for the ban on ‘social scoring’ to be “clarified“ in order to include “existing social scoring practices in Europe, especially in welfare and migration procedures”.
They want the current ban on “non targeted scraping of facial images” to avoid “loopholes”, and for the guidelines to specify that “any derogation from the ban must be in line with the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU”.
They also criticise certain “shortcomings” in the Commission’s consultation process, including “the lack of advance notice” and the failure to publish “draft guidelines to enable more targeted [...] feedback”.
See the statement: https://aeur.eu/f/f3r (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)