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To respect privacy and human dignity, MEPs ask for a permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, noting that citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime. Parliament calls for the use of private facial recognition databases (like the Clearview AI system, which is already in use) and predictive policing based on behavioural data to be forbidden. MEPs also want to ban social scoring systems, which try to rate the trustworthiness of citizens based on their behaviour or personality.

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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

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AI Verified The quote clearly supports banning key forms of AI-enabled mass surveillance by authorities: it calls for a permanent ban on automated recognition in public spaces, says citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime, and also seeks to forbid facial-recognition databases, predictive policing, and social scoring. This establishes support for the overall statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly backs bans on AI surveillance tools: a "permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces," saying citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime, and forbidding facial recognition databases, predictive policing, and social scoring. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

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AI Verified The quote clearly supports banning key forms of AI-enabled mass surveillance: it calls for a permanent ban on automated recognition of people in public spaces, forbids private facial-recognition databases and predictive policing, and says citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime. This establishes support for the statement as a whole. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote clearly backs banning AI used for broad surveillance: it asks for a "permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces" and says facial recognition databases, predictive policing, and social scoring should be "forbidden." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The exact wording appears verbatim in the European Parliament press release titled “Use of artificial intelligence by the police: MEPs oppose mass surveillance,” published on 06-10-2021; lines 122–123 match the submitted text exactly, so it is correctly attributed to the European Parliament source page. ([europarl.europa.eu](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210930IPR13925/use-of-artificial-intelligence-by-the-police-meps-oppose-mass-surveillance)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is verbatim from the European Parliament press release dated October 6, 2021 (20210930IPR13925) about MEPs opposing mass surveillance. The exact phrases "permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces," "predictive policing based on behavioural data to be forbidden," and "ban social scoring systems" are all confirmed across multiple sources (TechCrunch, TechSpot, eucrim, Schneier on Security). Source URL returned 403 to me but content is independently confirmed. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement "Ban predictive policing" - the EP resolution explicitly calls for forbidding predictive policing. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago

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