
AI Act: "Attack on civil rights is imminent“, Svenja Hahn
„It is outrageous that the Spanish Council Presidency managed to adjust the final legislative text on key points so that it no longer reflects the oral trilogue agreement. The final text is unspecific about the difference between "real-time" and "post real-time" biometric identification, which threatens to circumvent the very strict rules on real-time identification of persons that the Parliament was able to push for, against the member states. The oral agreement had foreseen the use of post real-time biometric identification only for very serious crimes, under very strict conditions, such as a prior judicial approval. Little of this remained.“