# The AI Act isn’t enough: closing the dangerous loopholes that enable rights violations

- Type: News
- Source: European Digital Rights
- Date: 2025-11-13
- Original: https://edri.org/our-work/the-ai-act-isnt-enough-closing-the-dangerous-loopholes-that-enable-rights-violations/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/49203
- Topics: Prohibited AI Practices, AI Risk Mitigation, Annex III Amendments, High-Risk AI Classification, National-Level Risk Procedures for AI Systems, AI Risk Assessment, Artificial Intelligence, Monitoring, AI Act Violations, Security

## Summary

While the EU's AI Act aims to regulate high-risk AI systems, it is undermined by major loopholes that allow their unchecked use in the context of national security and law enforcement. These exemptions risk enabling, among others, mass surveillance of protests and discriminatory migration practices. To prevent this, EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan has published recommendations for Slovenia to adopt stricter national safeguards and transparent oversight mechanisms. The post The AI Act isn’t

## Full text

While the EU's AI Act aims to regulate high-risk AI systems, it is undermined by major loopholes that allow their unchecked use in the context of national security and law enforcement. These exemptions risk enabling, among others, mass surveillance of protests and discriminatory migration practices. To prevent this, EDRi affiliate Danes je nov dan has published recommendations for Slovenia to adopt stricter national safeguards and transparent oversight mechanisms.

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