*MEPs to vote on proposed ban on ‘Big Brother’ [so-called] AI facial recognition on streets.*

I applaud the EU for even considering this, and I hope it passes.

Whether facial recognition should be considered "AI" is a tricky question, which I think makes no difference to anything important. Such systems should be prohibited, but the prohibition should not be limited to facial recognition. It should cover identification of persons by any kind of sensing of personal characteristic.

Indeed, it should include collection of records from which it would be straightforward to identify people later.