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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Intermediate

Prohibited AI Practices

AI uses banned under Article 5 of the EU AI Act as an unacceptable risk, applicable since 2 February 2025.

Definition

Prohibited practices include harmful manipulative or subliminal techniques, exploiting vulnerabilities of specific groups, social scoring, predicting criminal offenses based solely on profiling, untargeted scraping of facial images to build recognition databases, emotion recognition in workplaces and schools (except medical or safety), biometric categorization inferring sensitive traits, and real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces for law enforcement except narrow exceptions.

Example

An employer cannot deploy AI that infers employees' emotions from webcam feeds.

Exam tip

Emotion recognition is prohibited only in workplace and education contexts.

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