Subliminal and Manipulative Techniques: Systems that deploy techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or use purposefully manipulative/deceptive methods are prohibited.
Vulnerability Exploitation: Systems cannot exploit vulnerabilities related to age, disability, or socio-economic situations.
Social Scoring and Assessment
Social Behavior Classification: Systems that evaluate or classify people based on social behavior or personality characteristics are prohibited when they lead to:
Unfavorable treatment in contexts unrelated to the original data collection
Unjustified or disproportionate treatment based on social behavior
Crime Prediction and Risk Assessment
Prohibited: AI systems that predict criminal behavior based solely on personality profiling
Exception: Systems may support human assessment when based on objective, verifiable facts directly linked to criminal activity
Biometric Systems and Privacy
Database Creation: Prohibited to create/expand facial recognition databases through untargeted scraping of internet/CCTV footage
Emotion Recognition: Banned in workplace and educational settings (except for medical/safety purposes)
Biometric Categorization: Systems cannot categorize individuals based on sensitive characteristics like:
Race
Political opinions
Trade union membership
Religious/philosophical beliefs
Sexual orientation/sex life
Law Enforcement Restrictions
Real-time Biometric Identification: Only allowed in public spaces for:
Searching for specific victims (abduction, trafficking, exploitation)
Preventing imminent threats to life/safety or terrorist attacks
Locating suspects of serious crimes (punishable by 4+ years)