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Article 5(1)(c)

CurrentFrom 2 Feb 2025

Do Not Use Prohibited AI-Based Social Scoring

Applies to Provider; Deployer.

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Governance & Accountability

Tracker Guidance

Your organization should not use AI-based social scoring that leads to detrimental or unfavourable treatment of people in social contexts unrelated to the context in which the data were generated or collected, or to treatment that is unjustified or disproportionate to the person's social behaviour or its gravity.

Official text

Article 5(1)(c)Official source
(c) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of AI systems for the evaluation or classification of natural persons or groups of persons over a certain period of time based on their social behaviour or known, inferred or predicted personal or personality characteristics, with the social score leading to either or both of the following: (i) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups of persons in social contexts that are unrelated to the contexts in which the data was originally generated or collected; (ii) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups of persons that is unjustified or disproportionate to their social behaviour or its gravity;

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