Prohibited AI practices

These practices have been banned since 2 February 2025 (Article 5). If you find one in use, stop it.

The bans

• Manipulation: AI using subliminal or deliberately manipulative techniques that distort people's behaviour and cause significant harm.
• Exploiting vulnerabilities: AI that exploits age, disability or social or economic situation to distort behaviour harmfully.
• Social scoring: rating people on their social behaviour or personal traits, leading to unfair treatment in unrelated contexts.
• Predicting crime from profiling alone: assessing someone's risk of committing a crime based only on profiling or personality traits.
• Untargeted facial scraping: building facial-recognition databases by scraping images from the internet or CCTV.
• Emotion recognition at work or in education, except for medical or safety reasons.
• Biometric categorisation that infers race, political opinions, trade-union membership, religion, sex life or sexual orientation.
• Real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces for law enforcement, apart from narrow, authorised exceptions.

New from 2 December 2026

The Digital Omnibus on AI adds two bans to Article 5, both applying from 2 December 2026 with the same top tier of fines:

• AI systems that generate or manipulate intimate images, video or audio of identifiable people without their consent (so-called "nudifier" tools).
• AI systems that generate or manipulate child sexual abuse material.

For deployers, the ban applies when the system is used for that purpose. Providers must also guard against reasonably foreseeable misuse of general generative tools.

V77 Trust's classification asks about each of these. A "yes" marks the system as prohibited.