Can Your Boss Read Your Mood? The EU AI Act Draws the Line
Can your employer use AI to infer your mood, protected traits, or biological identity at work? This investigative explainer examines the EU AI Act’s boundary between prohibited workplace emotion recognition, sensitive biometric categorisation, and high-risk employment systems.
We separate sourced law from analysis, including the safety exception, the 2 December 2027 employment-AI application date, and the scoped 2 December 2026 transition for certain covered synthetic-content systems already on the market. We also clarify the age-six biometric rule: it belongs to VIS/EES border management…
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