The European Union considering temporary facial recognition ban

Regulation for some of the worst aspects of the internet age has been notoriously slow to come about. People spent 20 years giving away personal data before governments and regulators started to take the issue seriously. That's not a mistake that the EU are wanting to repeat, as they are looking to ensure that issues around new and emerging technologies are given adequate consideration. In a new draft of a European Commission whitepaper on artificial intelligence, mention is made of the inherent risks to privacy and human rights that'biometric remote identification' (i.e. And one current solution that the EU is exploring is, "a time-limited ban on the use of facial recognition by private or public actors in public spaces."