The European Union's AI Act has excluded Ireland from its regulations, raising alarms among experts about possible implications for surveillance practices by gardaí. With this apparent loophole, gardaí may gain access to AI technologies and facial recognition tools that are restricted in most other EU countries. Critically, this could facilitate extensive tracking and monitoring activities without the checks and balances typically enforced, prompting concerns about privacy rights and state overreach in Ireland.
Experts are concerned that Ireland's lack of binding constraints from the AI Act could result in excessive surveillance by gardaí using advanced technologies like facial recognition.
The loophole in the AI Act allows gardaí broader discretion to engage in surveillance practices that are deemed unregulated across the majority of the EU.
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