2/4 The Council's agreement on #GDPR Procedurals tackles crucial issues like:
2/12 1⃣ It's impossible for technology to fix deep societal issues.
🚨Survivors-representative group @MOGiS_en warns that the proposal will harm survivors & other young people. ⬇️
2/4 MEPs need to prohibit systems from detecting or inferring emotion on the basic data about our appearance or behaviour.
2/ In 2020, from all referrals of #CSAM the US NCMEC sent to the Irish police ⚠️ just 20% were actually CSAM & less than 10% were actionable. Nevertheless, the Irish police❗️kept the data on people wrongfully accused.
2/6 In the name of protecting children, the EU wants to surveil people’s private messages.
2/5 What happens if @EUCouncil gets their way?
2/4 @ReclaimYourFace campaign covered 18 EU countries while coordinating one of the most politically powerful #ECIs. With national wins in Italy, Portugal, Germany & Serbia, we set the political agenda & mobilised for a ban on biometric mass surveillance.
2/8 #HADOPI was created in 2009 to sanction users suspected of sharing protected content without authorisation. It collects IP addresses shared by rightsholders & requests civil identity data (name, postal & email addresses) from telecom operators to identify & contact suspects.
2/5 “The DSA offers the much-needed tools to enforce platform accountability, but we will continue to call and work for regulatory alternatives to address the currently dominant surveillance business model,” says @edri's @sebabecks. edri.org/our-work/the-d…
2/4 In that state of emergency, the Commission would be able to force online platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to interfere with the right to free expression and the dissemination of information online. Hardly any checks and balances, no time limits.
2/4 AI systems are used to profile people & areas, predict crime & assess the likely ‘risk’ of criminality.
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.
2/8 The report explains why AI inequalities are a much more complicated problem than just a system design issue.
"Member States are free to determine their competent authority, as long as it acts independently and in a non-discriminatory manner."
2/5 Ahead of the EU AI proposal, we call for regulatory limits on:
2/8 What is at stake with biometric surveillance? Our reality as we know it! We must protect our democratic public spaces– and with them, our freedoms to speak, to assemble, to protest and to express ourselves.