Inference & Profiling · Restriction or exception
Prohibited: harmful social scoring of individuals and predictive policing based on profiling
You may not use AIs to evaluate or classify individuals based on social behaviour or personal traits where that leads to detrimental or unfavourable treatment, either in a context unrelated to the data’s original context or where the treatment is unjustified or disproportionate. You also may not use AIs for predictive policing or criminal risk assessments based on profiling or on assessing personality traits and characteristics.
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You may not access, use, or allow others to access or use AIs in any manner that would:
Evaluate or classify individuals based on social behavior or personal traits that leads to detrimental or unfavorable treatment, either in a context unrelated to the original data or that is unjustified or disproportionate
Engage in predictive policing or criminal risk assessments based on profiling or assessing personality traits and characteristics
Qualifications & exceptions
- The social-scoring ban is tied to detrimental or unfavourable treatment that is out of context, unjustified or disproportionate; evaluation without that treatment is not addressed.
Inference & Profiling · Restriction or exception
Prohibited: facial-image scraping, biometric categorisation, and emotion or biometric ID uses (two law carve-outs)
Four biometric uses are banned. You may not use AIs for untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to build facial recognition databases, or to categorise people by their biometric data to deduce or infer race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation. Emotion recognition in the workplace or in education, and real-time biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law-enforcement purposes, are also banned, but each of those two carries the words "save as permitted by applicable law", so a legally permitted instance is not prohibited by this list.
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You may not access, use, or allow others to access or use AIs in any manner that would:
Engage in the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to build facial recognition databases
Engage in emotion recognition in the workplace or education, save as permitted by applicable law
Categorise people based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation
Engage in real-time biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of law enforcement, save as permitted by applicable law
Qualifications & exceptions
- The "save as permitted by applicable law" exception attaches only to emotion recognition (workplace or education) and to real-time biometric identification for law enforcement; the facial-scraping and biometric-categorisation bans carry no such carve-out.