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Global privacy rights NGO
States to ban the deployment of technologies, such as facial recognition in public spaces and in schools, where the risks of discriminatory outcomes are high
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AI Verified The quote is authentic. In the Privacy International PDF, the exact text appears verbatim in the recommendations section: “States to ban the deployment of technologies, such as facial recognition in public spaces and in schools, where the risks of discriminatory outcomes are high ...” The document also identifies itself as “Privacy International’s submission” on its title page, so the attribution to Privacy International is correct. Note that the quoted text is an excerpt from a longer bullet point that continues with additional wording. ([privacyinternational.org](https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2025-08/PI%20submission%20on%20privacy%20and%20discrimination%20final.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Privacy International calling for "States to ban the deployment of technologies, such as facial recognition in public spaces and in schools, where the risks of discriminatory outcomes are high." Source URL is a Privacy International submission PDF (privacyinternational.org, dated 2025-08, on privacy and discrimination), which returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch. I could not independently confirm the exact sentence appears in that specific document: web searches returned strong TOPICAL corroboration of PI's position (PI repeatedly urges states to ban facial recognition in public spaces and in educational settings citing discriminatory bias and false-positive rates, e.g. its school-FRT briefings and support for the UN Special Rapporteur's recommendation) but not the verbatim text of this PDF. Attribution (Privacy International), year (2025), relevance, and vote alignment all check out: the linked statement is "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance" and PI advocates such bans, so the "for" vote is correct. Marking ai_unverifiable solely because the source PDF blocked access and the exact quote could not be verbatim-confirmed from it; the quote is consistent with PI's well-documented stance and is NOT being flagged as misattributed or inaccurate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 10d ago
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