Taking shots at the AI Act from the biometric sidelines

A problem with trying to create a legislative super-regime like the EU’s AI Act is that every aspect of the law is so complex that anyone can mount a winning ideological attack on it.

The lawmaking is byzantine and fluid. Broad potential impacts on government functions, citizens and industry are really only understood by experts, who typically are not in government.

Few people outside the EU even know what the act’s finish line looks like or where it is.

So …

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