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23 objects in this selection.
- Actionv1.0.04 relations
Screen every use case against Article 5 first
praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:article-5-screen
Before procurement, build or deployment, check whether the use case falls under a prohibited practice and stop or redesign early rather than after the fact.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Editorially reviewed | prohibited-practices
- ChangeApplicablev1.0.04 relations
The AI Act enters into force
praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2024-08-01-entry-into-force
The regulation entered into force on 1 August 2024, after which the obligations followed in phases.
Hangs off: Article 4: AI literacy, Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | timeline
- ChangeApplicablev1.0.04 relations
Prohibited practices and AI literacy apply
praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-02-02-prohibitions-and-literacy-applicable
Since 2 February 2025 the Article 5 prohibition and the Article 4 AI literacy duty apply.
Hangs off: Article 4: AI literacy, Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | ai-literacy, timeline
- ChangeGuidancev1.0.03 relations
Guidelines on prohibited AI practices
praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-07-29-prohibited-practices-guidelines
Worked examples for each Article 5 prohibition, with the line between permitted and prohibited.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | prohibited
- ChangeUpcomingv1.0.02 relations
New prohibitions require technical safeguards
praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2026-12-02-new-prohibitions-technical-safeguards
The Digital Omnibus prohibits AI for child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate imagery.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | prohibited, timeline
- Controlv1.0.04 relations
Article 5 gate at intake and change
praxikon:eu:ai-act:control:article-5-intake-gate
Repeat the screening for every new system, procurement and material change of purpose or context; an earlier clearance does not cover a new use.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Editorially reviewed | control, prohibited-practices
- Evidencev1.0.04 relations
Article 5 screening record
praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:article-5-screening-record
A record per system that the Article 5 screening was performed, with outcome and reasoning. The conclusion "no prohibited practice" is evidence too.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Editorially reviewed | evidence, prohibited-practices
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
AI toy rewards children for dangerous challenges
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-ai-speelgoed-riskante-challenges
A manufacturer markets an AI-powered toy that keeps children engaged by encouraging increasingly risky challenges, such as climbing furniture, exploring high shelves or handling sharp objects, in exchange for digital rewards and virtual praise.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Inferring political opinions from uploaded photos
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-biometrische-categorisering-politieke-voorkeur
A platform analyses the biometric data in photos users have uploaded to infer their assumed political orientation and serve them targeted political messages. A comparable system infers assumed sexual orientation in order to serve advertisements.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Call centre measures employees' anger
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-callcenter-emotieherkenning-medewerkers
A call centre uses webcams and voice recognition to track employees' emotions, such as anger. The same company also uses voice analysis to detect when a customer becomes irritated.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Medical exception: accessibility yes, burnout detection no
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-emotieherkenning-medische-uitzondering
An employer wants to deploy emotion recognition. In one scenario the system assists employees with autism and improves accessibility for blind and deaf colleagues. In the other it measures stress levels to flag burnout, boredom or loss of motivation.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Screening tax returns for criminal offences on a profile alone
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-fiscale-misdrijven-voorspellen-uit-profiel
A tax authority runs a predictive AI tool over all tax returns to flag potential criminal tax offences. This is done solely on the profile built by the system, using personality traits such as dual nationality, place of birth and number of children, together with inferred variables that are hard to verify.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Fraud profiling in childcare benefits
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-fraudeprofilering-kinderopvangtoeslag
A tax authority uses an AI system to detect childcare benefit fraud by profiling beneficiaries and assigning them to categories such as deliberate intent or gross negligence, using criteria such as low income, dual nationality and social behaviour. Based on the risk score, files are inspected, benefits are stopped and repayment is demanded.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.03 relations
Personalised advertising is not automatically prohibited manipulation
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-gepersonaliseerde-reclame-geen-verboden-manipulatie
An advertiser uses AI to tailor ads to user preferences. The question is whether that touches the manipulation prohibition.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Facial recognition company builds a database from social media
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-gezichtsdatabank-scrapen-sociale-media
A software company runs an automated image scraper across the internet to detect images containing human faces on social media, stores them with source URL, geolocation and sometimes names, and converts the facial features into mathematical representations against which an uploaded photo can be matched.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Credit advertising targeted at low-income postcodes
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-kredietreclame-lage-inkomens-postcode
A financial services provider uses a predictive AI model to target advertising for predatory financial products at people living in low-income postcodes who are in dire financial straits.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.03 relations
Credit scoring and telematics premiums remain permitted
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-kredietscoring-en-telematica-buiten-verbod
A lender assesses creditworthiness on the basis of income, expenses and other financial and economic circumstances. An insurer raises the premium of a driver whose telematics data show persistent speeding.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Place-based predictive policing falls outside the prohibition
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-locatiegebonden-predictive-policing
A police force uses an AI system that scores the likelihood of crime in different areas of a city, based on past crime rates per area, street maps and supporting information, to decide where to deploy more patrols.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Eye tracking in online exams versus emotion detection
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-onderwijs-eye-tracking-online-tentamen
An education institution uses eye tracking software during online exams to follow students' gaze point and eye movement, to detect whether unauthorised material is being used.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Live facial recognition at a football stadium
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-realtime-gezichtsherkenning-voetbalstadion
Police install a van with mobile cameras and live facial recognition at the main entrance of a stadium during a European Championship match. The watchlist covers people suspected of offences ranging from serious crime to fraud and burglary, plus people of possible intelligence interest and vulnerable persons with mental health issues. There is no information linking a specific person to this event.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ExampleGuidancev1.0.02 relations
Well-being chatbot pushes users toward dangerous behaviour
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen
A provider markets an AI chatbot meant to help users maintain a healthy lifestyle, with tailored advice on exercise and mental rest. In practice the chatbot exploits individual vulnerabilities and pushes people into dangerous habits, such as excessive sport without rest or water.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Placed against the official source | examples
- ObligationApplicablev1.0.030 relations
Article 5: prohibited practices
praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-5-prohibited-practices
The prohibition of AI practices carrying unacceptable risk, such as manipulation, social scoring and certain biometric applications.
Placed against the official source | prohibited-practices
The full legal text of the prohibited practices with all categories and exceptions, in the public AI Act Explorer.
Hangs off: Article 5: prohibited practices
Editorially reviewed | prohibited-practices, template
What this explorer does not do
- There is no article object. The article sits as a locator on the citations of an obligation, as free text. Filtering on the obligation is the same question, and the data does carry that.
- No object carries an Annex III domain or use case. A selection of the form "systems for this purpose" cannot be expressed here.
- A locator hangs on a statement in the data, not on a relation. The source next to a path is the source anchor of the object carrying the relation, not proof of that one connection.
- The split between duty holder and affected actor exists on obligations only. On every other type the actor list is still one undifferentiated list.
- The graph stores no inverse relations. The incoming direction is computed here over the same release and adds nothing to the data.
- Topics are free slugs, not a taxonomy with objects, labels or a hierarchy of their own.
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