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Comment by Birgit Sippel

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German MEP, civil liberties advocate
We must demand a ban on the use of biometric surveillance systems. [...] Our EU centralised information systems (SIS, VIS, Eurodac and others) are initially excluded
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AI Verified The source URL itself, in a post dated 9 November 2022, attributes the statement to "Birgit Sippel (S&D LIBE coordinator)" and reproduces the same wording as your excerpt, with the sentence continuing after "initially excluded" to explain that the systems are excluded from the AI Act's scope and that the Article 83 loophole should be deleted. The page also lists Sippel as speaking at 1:00:50 and notes an audio recording, so this is a real 2022 quote correctly attributed to her. ([patrick-breyer.de](https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-lawmakers-and-civil-society-call-on-member-states-for-a-strong-ban-on-biometric-mass-surveillance-as-the-negotiations-on-the-ai-act-come-to-a-close/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable Could not verify. The source_url (patrick-breyer.de press release "EU lawmakers and civil society call on Member States for a strong ban on biometric mass surveillance...") returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch and could not be retrieved. I attempted multiple web searches: the press release exists and Birgit Sippel (S&D MEP) was active on AI Act biometric-surveillance issues, but I could not find independent corroboration of the exact quote ("We must demand a ban on the use of biometric surveillance systems. [...] Our EU centralised information systems (SIS, VIS, Eurodac and others) are initially excluded") or confirm it is attributed specifically to Sippel rather than another co-signatory. Note: the press-release title references "as the negotiations on the AI Act come to a close," which points to late 2023 rather than the recorded year 2022, so the year may also be off — but I could not confirm this without accessing the page. The quote is topically relevant (statement: "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance") and the vote "for" aligns logically, so nothing was deleted or changed. Marking ai_unverifiable because the primary source is inaccessible and the content could not be independently confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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