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I can't read the link as its down but here's an article that does a good job of explaining the leaked EU report [0].

> As for facial recognition, the Commission document highlights provisions from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which give citizens “the right not to be subject of a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.”

It's more nuanced than "a ban on facial recognition". The leaked white paper is also available [1]

[0] https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/leak-commissio...

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/...

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So let's say you're the police and you want to keep an eye out for bad guys, and you have a bunch of CCTVs. According to the rule you quoted, it would be sufficient to surface the face match to someone, who would manually check that it is the right person before going ahead and arresting them? That person could even be the police themselves? I bet people think this is banning a lot more behavior than it is.

The rule I quoted is a summary of the position and not to be taken as legal framework on decision making. The rules are mulled over in the white paper and it would take some time to digest it before making a comment on how the rule could potentially work in the future. The current process is for the white paper to be published and then call for opinions on comments.