The EU's landmark #AIAct was agreed at minutes to midnight yesterday. Whilst lawmakers celebrate, human rights groups are sceptical.

As someone who's spent years calling on the EU to #BanBiometricMassSurveillance via @ReclaimYourFace, here's my take on where they landed: Real-time public facial recognition (RBI): disappointingly, but not surprisingly, member states resisted a full ban. The Parliament fought hard to narrow exceptions and add more safeguards, but it doesn't look like it will be enough to stop widespread biometric mass surveillance;

A thread for policy nerds 🤓 (a term I use with the upmost respect) to share my views on the latest developments with the EU's proposed #CSARegulation. This is a law which threatens human rights and freedoms online to an extent never before seen in a democratic society: If you follow Brussels lawmaking, you'll have come across the proposal for a 'CSA Regulation', popularly coined #ChatControl for the sweeping online surveillance measures that the law puts forward. @edri has been extremely critical of the law...