EU’s Agenda to Regulate AI Does Little to Rein in Facial Recognition

Last month, a draft white paper revealed that Europe was weighing a temporary five-year ban on facial recognition. That ban no longer appears in the final draft. The term "facial recognition" only appears four times in the 27-page document that outlines Europe's vision for the future of artificial intelligence. Three of those four instances are in footnotes. The document, known as the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, is a part of the European Union Commission's ambitious agenda to regulate the tech sector of the EU's 27 member nations, which it released this week (Feb.