EU’s lie-detecting virtual border guards face court scrutiny


Belgian police officers perform road checks at the Hensies border crossing between France and Belgium. The iBorderCtrl trial, which ended in 2019, is one of several projects seeking to automate the EU’s increasingly busy borders and counter irregular migration and terrorism. — AFP

TBILISI: The European Union’s top court will on Feb 5 hear a case brought by a digital rights activist over a pilot project that used lie-detecting avatars to quiz travellers on EU borders.

Patrick Breyer, a European lawmaker, is requesting the release of EU Research Agency (REA) documents evaluating the €4.5mil (RM21.93mil) trial of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) lie detectors to ramp up EU border security.

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