10-12-2020 14:00 via theguardian.com

Sci-fi surveillance: Europe's secretive push into biometric technology

EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. But who decides how far we need to submit to artificial intelligence?Patrick Breyer didn’t expect to have to take the European commission to court. The softly spoken German MEP was startled when in July 2019 he read about a new technology to detect from facial “micro-expressions” when somebody is lying while answering questions.Even more startling was that the EU was funding research into this
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