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  "title": "EU AI Act - Prohibition on Emotion Recognition AI in Workplaces and Educational Institutions (Article 5(1)(f))",
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  "last_updated": "2026-04-28",
  "bluf": "EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) Article 5(1)(f) prohibits the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems intended to infer emotions of natural persons in the context of the workplace and educational institutions - applicable from 2 February 2025 (the date prohibited practices became enforceable under Article 113); 'emotion recognition system' is defined in Article 3(34) as an AI system intended to identify or infer emotions or intentions of natural persons on the basis of their biometric data; the prohibition covers AI systems that infer feelings, emotional states, or affective responses including happiness, distress, boredom, focus, arousal, or deceptiveness from facial expressions, voice patterns, body language, or physiological signals; two exceptions to the prohibition apply: (1) AI placed on the market or put into service for medical reasons - e.g., pain assessment tools for non-verbal patients, post-stroke facial muscle analysis; (2) AI placed on the market or put into service for safety reasons - e.g., drowsiness detection systems for vehicle operators or machine operators; the prohibition applies to providers placing emotion recognition AI on the EU market AND to deployers using such AI in workplace or educational contexts, making this one of the EU AI Act prohibitions with the most immediate direct applicability to HR technology, employee monitoring, and EdTech sectors.",
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