EU AI Act / Chapter II / Article 5
EU AI Act · Article 5
Prohibited AI practices
What it means
Bans AI that manipulates people subliminally or deceptively to cause harm, exploits vulnerabilities of age, disability or social situation, social scoring, predicting crime from profiling alone, untargeted scraping of facial images, emotion recognition at work or in education (except medical or safety reasons), biometric categorisation to infer sensitive traits, and real-time remote biometric identification in public for law enforcement except in narrow cases. The 2026 Omnibus added AI that generates non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material.
Live checks for Article 5
- EU AI Act Art.5 - prohibited-practice screen passed
- EU AI Act Art.5(1)(c) - no social scoring
- EU AI Act Art.5(1)(e) - no untargeted scraping of facial images
- EU AI Act Art.5(1)(f) - no emotion recognition at work or in education
- EU AI Act Art.5 (as amended 2026) - no generation of non-consensual intimate images or child abuse material
Each one runs now, free, with a tamper-evident receipt.
How to prove it with sebbi.pro: Prohibited-practice screens as live checks
Plain-English summary by sebbi.pro of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. The official text is the only authoritative version: EUR-Lex.