1/4 📢 Today, @EDRi, @fairtrials & 40+ civil society organisations urge the EU to ❌ BAN AI predictive & profiling systems in law enforcement & criminal justice in the #AIAct.
2/4 AI systems are used to profile people & areas, predict crime & assess the likely ‘risk’ of criminality.
This leads to undemocratic practices like surveillance, stop & search, fines, questioning, arrest, detention, prosecution & civil punishments like denial of welfare.
3/4 🚨AI can exacerbate structural imbalances of power & often harm the most marginalised in society.
The data law enforcement & criminal justice use to build & run AI systems result in the over-policing, disproportional surveillance & imprisoning of racialised groups in Europe.
4/4 These systems' outputs are NOT reliable evidence of actual or prospective criminal activity & should NEVER be used as justification for any law enforcement action such as an arrest.
⚖️Affected people must have clear & effective routes to challenge the use of these systems.⚖️
Many Muslims are subject to discrimination, oppression & abuse because of anti-terrorist & surveillance policies in Europe, disproportionately targeting them as a threat to security.
2/5 ❌ The EU's 2020 Counter-Terrorism Agenda uses a flawed narrative that more surveillance is needed to guarantee security. This will only increase the over-policing of Muslims through data-sharing & biometric mass surveillance.
1/8 🙅♀️ Debiasing AI is not a silver bullet! 🙅🏾♂️
EDRi's latest report by @AggieBalayn & @sedyst from @tudelft shows that EU policymakers must STOP framing AI harms as technical flaws in the design of the AI systems, which can be fixed by using tech or "debiasing" solutions.
2/8 The report explains why AI inequalities are a much more complicated problem than just a system design issue.
🔥To make a real difference to the experience of marginalised groups, lawmakers need to view AI in the wider context of structural discrimination, inequality & power.
3/8 ❌ Failing to recognise the complexity of #AI’s impact on the broader political economy, risks giving even more power & control to #BigTech.
📢Today @sarahchander and @ellajakubowska1 takeover the @edri twitter account to give you their first impressions of the #EUAI Regulation as soon as it is out! Stay tuned for the latest impressions from civil society.
We're here! We'll be watching the press conference here and sharing our thoughts:
📢 It’s time to debunk narratives that the #TERREG will effectively fight terrorist content. In reality, it wouldn’t protect anyone from terrorism & it would censor marginalised groups.
Its proponents are making these false claims to support its adoption in the @Europarl_EN ⬇️
"Member States are free to determine their competent authority, as long as it acts independently and in a non-discriminatory manner."
❌Lack of mandatory judicial authorization & review of orders by national authorities to remove content online means erosion of the rule of law👇
❌To censor content within 1 hour, without prior judicial authorisation will lead to excessive, arbitrary or discriminatory interference with fundamental rights.
❌Systemic violations of the rule of law and fundamental rights concerns the EU as well: europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
2/5 Ahead of the EU AI proposal, we call for regulatory limits on:
🔶uses of AI at the border & in migration control
🔶social scoring & AI systems determining access to social rights and benefits
🔶predictive policing
🔶& more
3/5 Regulating the use of AI & ensuring the protection of our rights is the EU's chance to show true innovation. Europe's industries, from AI developers to car manufacturing, will benefit from regulatory certainty of clear legal limits & even playing field for fair competition.
1/4 Tomorrow the @EUCouncil will discuss #TERREG new draft with the aim to reach a final compromise with @EP_Justice during Thursday’s trilogue
2/4 The proposal was already subject to criticism by @fra, @edps and three UN Special Rapporteurs in 2018-19. Yet again, EU plans to counter online terrorist propaganda are under fire from @Irenekhan and @NiAolainF
3/4 Legislation would have “serious implications for freedom of expression, association & political participation” say @Irenekhan@NiAolainF
Concerns are:
❕ Broad definition of terrorist content
⚖️Lack of judicial oversight
🌪 Short timeframe, upload filters & EU-wide removal