The ban imposed by the AI Act on all “high-risk” remote identification technologies has passed since we sat down with Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser (MEP Axel Voss) at European Parliament.
Still questions will be asked around how abiding countries and tech industries are to identifying the technologies posing the biggest threats to citizens, such as some identity applications, emotional recognition solutions, data scrapping tech and CCTV systems, which should be managed properly in public and private settings under this legislation.
The conversation is bound to have moved on since the inauguration of the AI Act which will be aired by experts at Identity Week Europe 2024 this June. Speaking prior to the law being passed, Kai Zenner examines its purpose as a product safety and citizen rights legislation, which was developed with “good intentions” by the EU Union and EU Commission, but needed to be finessed on “ground level” to establish the strictness of a total ban on technologies that fall under the “high risk” category.
With an elite position in the European Parliament, Kai Zenner’s comments and address to the whole Identity Week audience were profound in demonstrating the “all in” approach to law-making, with negotiation tactics and pushback from some countries, like France and Spain expected during the Act’s development stage.
