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# EU AI Act bans on unacceptable risk AI practices, literacy duties start
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-02-02-ai-act-prohibitions-literacy-apply/
- Published: 2025-02-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T05:00:07.000Z
- Description: The EU AI Act's ban on eight unacceptable risk AI practices, including social scoring, untargeted biometric scraping and workplace emotion recognition, took effect on 2 February 2025, alongside new AI literacy duties for providers and deployers.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [European Commission, AI Act regulatory framework guidance (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not show how national market surveillance authorities are enforcing the ban in practice.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)