Prohibited AI Practices: The Unacceptable Tier

The eight practices Article 5 bans outright — manipulation, exploitation, social scoring, predictive policing, face-scraping, emotion recognition, biometric categorisation, and real-time biometric identification — their exceptions, the RBI authorization machinery, and where the line to high-risk actually runs.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. Anatomy of a ban
  2. The eight practices, one by one
  3. Real-time biometric identification: the machinery of the exception
  4. Boundary drills: prohibited, high-risk, or transparency?