Digital technology in migration
The EU is increasingly using digital technology to control people both at its borders and in immigration procedures. Despite being sold as a neutral means to manage migration, digital technology replicates the biases of those who design it and risks leading to more discriminatory policing and profiling. We have published a new brief that looks at what this means for undocumented migrants and for civil society.
One of the tools that digital technology encompasses is artificial intelligence, that is, programmes and machines that perform human-like tasks, based on an initial input. As the European Parliament and Council are negotiating draft legislation (the “AI Act”) that regulates the use of artificial intelligence, we have joined digital rights and other human rights groups to call for a full protection of people on the move.
In coalition with Access Now, European Digital Rights, Migration and Technology Monitor and Statewatch, we put forward a set of recommendations that aim at:
● banning unsafe uses of artificial intelligence,
● categorising risky uses as “high risk” and subjecting them to increased oversight, and
● applying safeguards foreseen in the Act to large-scale EU migration databases too.
Statewatch has also published a report that highlights gaps in protection for migrants in the AI Act.
Digital technology in migration
The EU is increasingly using digital technology to control people both at its borders and in immigration procedures. Despite being sold as a neutral means to manage migration, digital technology replicates the biases of those who design it and risks leading to more discriminatory policing and profiling. We have published a new brief that looks at what this means for undocumented migrants and for civil society.
One of the tools that digital technology encompasses is artificial intelligence, that is, programmes and machines that perform human-like tasks, based on an initial input. As the European Parliament and Council are negotiating draft legislation (the “AI Act”) that regulates the use of artificial intelligence, we have joined digital rights and other human rights groups to call for a full protection of people on the move.
In coalition with Access Now, European Digital Rights, Migration and Technology Monitor and Statewatch, we put forward a set of recommendations that aim at:
● banning unsafe uses of artificial intelligence,
● categorising risky uses as “high risk” and subjecting them to increased oversight, and
● applying safeguards foreseen in the Act to large-scale EU migration databases too.
Statewatch has also published a report that highlights gaps in protection for migrants in the AI Act.