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AI Act loophole? How one company navigated the ban on workplace emotion recognition
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Can an employer use AI to read its employees' Slack and Teams messages to diagnose their stress levels? Under the EU AI Act, that sounds like a clear violation of the ban on workplace emotion recognition. Yet, one AI company, Myndoor, just survived a regulatory investigation by the Italian Data Protection Authority (the Garante) for doing exactly that.
In this episode, Robert dives into this fascinating ruling to explore how Myndoor legally bypassed the AI Act's Article 5 prohibitions through a clever "employee perk" structure. However, escaping the outright ban didn't get…
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