The EU’s AI Act bans some “unacceptable” use of the technology but critics say the law is riddled with security exemptions.

The European Union's AI Act no longer allows AI to be used to profile whether someone will commit a crime, with such “predictive policing” one of seven categories of AI use now banned. Scraping images from the internet to build up a database for facial recognition or deducting a person's emotions from biometric data is also prohibited.

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