Digital facial recognition systems Hungary proposes to use to trace participants of Budapest's Gay Pride march in Budapest will violate the EU's AI Act and data protection rules, according to an Italian MEP charged with monitoring the AI law.
Last Tuesday Hungary's Parliament ruled to ban the march - which usually takes place in June - in a modification to rules affecting public assembly from being held outside, and threatened those flouting the ban with fines of 200,000 Forint (€500), reserving the right use digital facial recognition tools to identify those in breach.
