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Daniel Leufer

Daniel Leufer

Senior Policy Analyst and Emerging Technologies Policy Lead

Daniel is a Senior Policy Analyst at Access Now’s Brussels office and Emerging Technologies Policy Lead. His work focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on digital rights, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, and biometrics. While he was a Mozilla Fellow, he developed aimyths.org, a website that gathers resources to tackle myths and misconceptions about AI. He has a PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven in Belgium and is a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures.

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Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses

29 Sep 2021

Facebook’s new smart glasses threaten our rights, because they turn humans into surveillance cameras and put bystanders at risk.

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Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses
29 Sep 2021
Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses
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Here’s how to fix the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act

7 Sep 2021

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act needs improvements to ensure it protects human rights.

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Here’s how to fix the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
7 Sep 2021
Here’s how to fix the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
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Submission to the European Commission’s consultation on the Artificial Intelligence Act

5 Aug 2021
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Submission to the European Commission’s consultation on the Artificial Intelligence Act
5 Aug 2021
Submission to the European Commission’s consultation on the Artificial Intelligence Act
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Sonic surveillance: why you don’t want AI snooping on you

30 Jun 2021

The threat voice recognition technology poses to our rights needs to be addressed now — before our voices become yet another piece of biometric data to be used against us.

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Sonic surveillance: why you don’t want AI snooping on you
30 Jun 2021
Sonic surveillance: why you don’t want AI snooping on you

Ban biometric surveillance: civil society demands outright prohibitions on public and private use

7 Jun 2021

Ban biometric surveillance! Access Now and over 150 civil society actors across the globe are calling for a ban on biometric surveillance.

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Ban biometric surveillance: civil society demands outright prohibitions on public and private use
7 Jun 2021
Ban biometric surveillance: civil society demands outright prohibitions on public and private use
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Victoria de privacidad para 350.000 personas en São Paulo: tribunal bloquea cámaras de reconocimiento facial en el metro

12 May 2021
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Victoria de privacidad para 350.000 personas en São Paulo: tribunal bloquea cámaras de reconocimiento facial en el metro
12 May 2021
Victoria de privacidad para 350.000 personas en São Paulo: tribunal bloquea cámaras de reconocimiento facial en el metro
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Privacy win for 350,000 people in São Paulo: court blocks facial recognition cameras in metro

12 May 2021
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Privacy win for 350,000 people in São Paulo: court blocks facial recognition cameras in metro
12 May 2021
Privacy win for 350,000 people in São Paulo: court blocks facial recognition cameras in metro
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EU takes minimal steps to regulate harmful AI systems, must go further to protect fundamental rights

21 Apr 2021

The European Commission just launched its Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence. Unfortunately, the new proposal falls short of meeting the minimum requirements needed to safeguard human rights in the EU.

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EU takes minimal steps to regulate harmful AI systems, must go further to protect fundamental rights
21 Apr 2021
EU takes minimal steps to regulate harmful AI systems, must go further to protect fundamental rights
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Computers are binary, people are not: how AI systems undermine LGBTQ identity

6 Apr 2021
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Computers are binary, people are not: how AI systems undermine LGBTQ identity
6 Apr 2021
Computers are binary, people are not: how AI systems undermine LGBTQ identity
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Reclaim your face from surveillance 🥸

23 Feb 2021

Sign this European Citizens’ Initiative to urge EU lawmakers to put a stop to harmful, discriminatory biometric mass surveillance practices.

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Reclaim your face from surveillance 🥸
23 Feb 2021
Reclaim your face from surveillance 🥸