Red Lines under the EU AI Act: Restricting Real-time Remote Biometric Identification Systems for Law Enforcement Purposes (opens in new tab)

The eighth blog in the “Red lines under the EU AI Act” series examines the general prohibition on the use of real-time biometric (RBI) systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement purposes imposed by Article 5(1)(h) of the EU AI Act, the three narrow exceptions to the prohibition permitted for Member States to utilize, and how these obligations fit in the broader context of real-time biometric identification in the EU.