The European Parliament has called for bans on predictive policing and biometric mass surveillance. In a resolution adopted on Tuesday, MEPs also voted to prohibit social scoring systems, the use of AI in judicial decisions,andprivate facial recognition databases — like the ClearviewAI system. A majority of lawmakers (377 to 248) backedthe wide-ranging resolutionon the use of AI in criminal law and policing. Bulgarian MEP Petar Vitanov, the resolution’s author, called the vote “a huge win” for European citizens:...

The scale of child sexual exploitation and abuse online is increasing at an alarming rate.The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)recently announcedthat it’s finding more finding 15 times as much child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online as it was a decade ago. This content is particularly prevalent inEurope. According toa 2020 report by the IWF, most web pages hosting CSAM are based in the continent.In response, the European Union plans to introduce stricter rules on tech firms that host the material....

YouTube has won a skirmish in its copyright war with the EU’s creative industries — but suffered some losses on the way. Europe’s top court ruled on Tuesday that YouTube and other online platforms are not responsible for copyright-infringing material uploaded by users. However, they could be liable if they fail to act “expeditiously” to remove or block content once they’re aware of breaches. They could also be liable if they don’t adopt “the appropriate technological measures” to tackle copyright breaches, provide tools “specifically intended” for the illegal sharing of content, or “knowingly promote such sharing,” the European Court of Justice said....

The EU has fined Amazon a record €746 million ($887m) for GDPR violations related to ad targetting. The decision stems froma 2018 complaintby French privacy rights group La Quadrature du Net, which alleged that Amazon’s ad targetting doesn’t obtain free consent from users. The ruling, which was issued by Luxembourg’s data protection authority (CNPD) on July 16, was disclosed by Amazon ina regulatory filingon Friday. The CNPD oversees Amazon’s operations in Europe because the company’s EU headquarters are based in Luxembourg....

The EU has unveiled plans for a digital ID wallet that people in the bloc could use to access services across the 27 member states. Citizens will be able to use the wallets to prove their ID and share electronic documents “with the click of a button on their phone,” the European Commission said on Thursday. “The European digital identity will enable us to do in any Member State as we do at home without any extra cost and fewer hurdles,” said Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for digital....