BRUSSELS - The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which is now set to be finally adopted by MEPs in April, provides some specific rules for the use of emotion recognition systems (ERS) for law enforcement.
For instance, police authorities deploying ERS are not required to inform people when they are exposed to these systems.
The use of AI systems that claim to infer emotions from biometrics (such as face, and voice) is only prohibited "in the areas of workplace and education institutions" (subject to an unclear 'safety' exception), not in contexts such as law enforcement and migration.
The use of particularly intrusive AI systems, such as the ones that (claim to) infer the emotions of persons from their biometric data, affects the fundamental right to privacy, autonomy and dignity of the person concerned.
