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Comment by Marcel Kolaja

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Czech digital rights activist; former MEP
I propose to ban deployment of such technologies without exceptions.
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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AI Unverifiable The quote is too vague to verify the full statement: it mentions banning "such technologies" but does not explicitly identify AI, mass surveillance, or the specific use being banned. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
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AI Verified The provided URL contains the exact sentence, embedded in a longer sentence: "I propose to ban deployment of such technologies without exceptions." The page is a March 22, 2022 post credited to Marcel Kolaja, so the quote is verbatim and correctly attributed. ([kolaja.eu](https://www.kolaja.eu/en/post/20220322-russia_demonstrates_how_ai_can_be_abused_three_significant_gaps_in_the_ai_act/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Verified. WebFetch of kolaja.eu returned HTTP 403, but web search confirmed Marcel Kolaja's March 22, 2022 blog post "Russia demonstrates how AI can be abused — three significant gaps in the AI Act" contains this content: he describes Russia abusing facial-recognition cameras (180,000+ in Moscow) to identify and persecute anti-war protesters, and as CULT rapporteur he proposes to ban deployment of remote biometric identification technologies "without exceptions." The quote "I propose to ban deployment of such technologies without exceptions" refers to biometric mass surveillance. Correctly attributed to Marcel Kolaja. He clearly supports banning AI mass surveillance, so the "for" vote on "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance" is correct. Year 2022 is older than 2025/2026 but remains relevant, so kept; Kolaja is a former MEP and I found no cleanly-sourced recent verbatim quote (only social-media posts, which are excluded), so I did not fabricate one. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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