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By BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Civil and digital rights groups on Wednesday launched a petition seeking the support of one million Europeans to help pressure the European Union to ban biometric mass surveillance ahead of laws on artificial intelligence (AI) due this year.Surveillance tools such as facial recognition systems have triggered concerns about risks to privacy and fundamental rights and that they could be exploited by repressive regimes to commit human rights violations.The EU executive plans to announce a legislative proposal on AI in the first quarter of the year, which is expected to cover high-risk sectors such as healthcare, energy, transport and parts of the public sector.The group called Reclaim Your Face is made up of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, European Digital Rights, Privacy International and nearly 30 other organisations, warned of the dangers of biometric data captured via CCTV cameras and facial recognition technology.The coalition, which aims to gather one million signatures so it can take part directly in the legislative process, said it has already collected evidence of vast and systemic abuses of people’s biometric data across Europe.“This is about everyone’s control over their own future,” Orsolya Reich, senior advocacy officer at the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, said in a statement.“We can already see this happening with the way AI is used to make decisions about us. Biometric mass surveillance will just feed more data from more people into these systems and make these practices even more widespread and harmful,” she said.The EU’s rights watchdog, the Vienna-based EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, last year sounded the alarm on the risks of using AI in predictive policing, medical diagnoses and targeted advertising. (This story corrects to show the coalition is called Reclaim Your Face and not a member of the coalition)Reporting by Foo Yun Chee, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards:

By BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Civil and digital rights groups on Wednesday launched a petition seeking the support of one million Europeans to help pressure the European Union to ban biometric mass surveillance ahead of laws on artificial intelligence (AI) due this year.Surveillance tools such as facial recognition systems have triggered concerns about risks to privacy and fundamental rights and that they could be exploited by repressive regimes to commit human rights violations.The EU executive plans to announce a legislative proposal on AI in the first quarter of the year, which is expected to...

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