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Comment by Karen Melchior

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Danish MEP, Renew Europe
Secondly, there is also a gap with regard to the use of AI to profile migrants and asylum seekers [...] we also signed amendments prohibiting these practices.
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AI Verified Verified: the source URL is a post credited to Karen Melchior and dated 11 June 2023. It contains the exact opening sentence, "Secondly, there is also a gap with regard to the use of AI to profile migrants and asylum seekers," followed shortly by "For those reasons, we also signed amendments prohibiting these practices." The submitted quote is a faithful ellipsis-compression of that passage and is correctly attributed to Melchior. ([karenmelchior.eu](https://karenmelchior.eu/ai-act-vote-our-push-to-protect-citizens-from-mass-surveillance/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable Could not positively verify the exact quote. The source URL (karenmelchior.eu, her own official MEP site) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, so I could not read the page. Web search corroborates the page's existence (slug matches: "our push to protect citizens from mass surveillance") and Karen Melchior's documented role as Renew's lead AI Act negotiator in the Legal Affairs (JURI) committee, where she worked to close loopholes in the biometric mass surveillance ban — consistent with the "for" vote on statement #412 ("Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance") and with year 2023 (the AI Act committee/plenary votes). HOWEVER, I could not find the specific verbatim quoted text ("...a gap with regard to the use of AI to profile migrants and asylum seekers [...] we also signed amendments prohibiting these practices") in any independently accessible source to confirm it appears on the blocked page. The attribution and vote direction appear correct and the quote is plausibly genuine, but because the source is unfetchable and the exact wording is unconfirmed, I am marking ai_unverifiable rather than verified to remain conservative. No content/year/source changes were made since they appear correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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