{"id":54553,"date":"2025-04-27T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54553\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:48:15","slug":"hungary-on-eu-watchlist-over-surveillance-at-pride-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54553\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary on EU watchlist over surveillance at Pride \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing pressure<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s executive has been under heavy pressure to respond to Hungary\u2019s Pride ban, particularly on the use of facial recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The EU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ai-deepseek-chatgpt-openai-eu-bans-series-of-ai-practices-but-with-loopholes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> in February to prohibit police forces from using real-time facial recognition technology under its artificial intelligence rulebook. Whether to ban systems that can identify people in real time based on their biometric data (i.e. through CCTV) was one of the thorniest topics as the law was being agreed \u2014 European Parliament lawmakers largely favored a ban while EU countries wanted an opt-out to allow them to fight serious crime.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, \u201creal-time biometric identification\u201d by police forces is forbidden, but with significant exceptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2209281899-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6515343\"  \/>The EU\u2019s executive has been under heavy pressure to respond to Hungary\u2019s Pride ban, particularly on the use of facial recognition. | Balint Szentgallay\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungary\u2019s amended law appears to enable the use of real-time biometric surveillance at Pride events, which is an application clearly falling under the AI Act\u2019s prohibitions,\u201d said Italian social democratic European lawmaker Brando Benifei, one of the two architects of the EU\u2019s AI Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch systems are not only technically designed to identify individuals in public without consent, but also risk inferring sensitive attributes like sexual orientation,\u201d he said in a statement shared with POLITICO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two dozen civil society groups expressed their concerns about Hungary\u2019s move in a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing pressure The EU\u2019s executive has been under heavy pressure to respond to Hungary\u2019s Pride ban, particularly on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,28979,2814,7964,2000,299,5187,2915,28980,6849,28981,2190,1302,2817,5763,2444,48,7338,2322,53,1781,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-54553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-brando-benifei","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-enforcement","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-exclusive","16":"tag-facial-recognition","17":"tag-henna-virkkunen","18":"tag-human-trafficking","19":"tag-hungary","20":"tag-innovation","21":"tag-intelligence","22":"tag-lgbtq","23":"tag-regulatory","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-rule-of-law","26":"tag-surveillance","27":"tag-technology","28":"tag-viktor-orban","29":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114409537864037746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}