Glossary · Regulation + law
EU AI Act Article 5 (prohibited practices)
The eight categories of AI practices banned in the EU since 2 February 2025: subliminal manipulation, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring by public authorities, predictive policing based on profiling, untargeted facial-recognition scraping, emotion recognition in workplaces + schools, biometric categorisation by sensitive attributes, real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement.
Framework references
- EU AI Act Art. 5