Questions/ Liberties · surveillance and personal data
Should the ban on social scoring cover every score, including the ones a person keeps?
Since 2 February 2025 the EU AI Act has banned AI systems that score people on their social behaviour where the score harms them in unrelated parts of life or out of proportion to what they did. Line 8 of the family’s draft asks for the same protection against any score.
What everyone can expect, draft 0.3, line 8 · EU AI Act art. 5(1)(c)
To be free of any score of how you live that follows you into unrelated parts of your life, or costs you more than what you did.
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Yes
Where this card stands
Yes. A score does the same harm whether a clerk or a model adds it up.
How sure, before and after the case against
The strongest case against it
The law covers AI systems for a reason. A ban on every score would reach landlords’ references and insurers’ records, and could push them back to gut feel, which is worse for people without connections.
What would change this card’s mind
If places that limit screening scores saw more refusals for renters with no references.
How this card would word the line
To be free of any score of how you live, whether a person or a machine keeps it, that follows you into unrelated parts of your life, or costs you more than what you did.
No. Keep the ban on automated scoring, where the harm comes from scale and secrecy. A person’s judgement can be questioned in a way a hidden model can’t.
How sure, before and after the case against
The strongest case against it
Blacklists kept by hand have shut people out of housing and work for decades, and nobody could question those either.
What would change this card’s mind
If records kept by hand caused as many wrongful refusals as automated scores in the same market.
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