EU_AI_ACT_ART5_BIOMETRIC_001

rules/regulations/eu/eu_ai_act_article5_biometric_categorisation.yaml

Citation

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5(1)(g): the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons 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; this prohibition does not cover any labelling or filtering of lawfully acquired biometric datasets, such as images, based on biometric data or categorizing of biometric data in the area of law enforcement;

Condition

Prohibits AI systems that use biometric categorisation to infer race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation. Article 5(1)(g).

Layer 1 detects

"biometric categori" in any form ("biometric categorisation", "biometric categorization", "biometric-categorise", "biometriccategori"); "facial classif" (also "facial-classif" or "facialclassif") with "race" later on the same line; "biometric" with "infer" later on the same line and, after that, "race", "religion", "politic", "sexual", "belief" or "union"; and "emotion recognition" (also "emotion-recognition" or "emotionrecognition") with "categori" later on the same line. Case is ignored and each word can sit inside a longer word. It matches wording, not meaning: it misses inference of these traits described in other words, without "biometric" or "facial classification" in the text, and every mention of "biometric categorisation" fires, including the labelling exception: "Biometric categorisation is used only for labelling our lawfully acquired image dataset by hair colour." fires. Whether a text does the practice is judged in Layer 2.

Condition type

regex; semantic condition in the file, not run by the engine

Status in the file

approved