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EU AI Act Prohibited Practices: fast checklist (Article 5 signals)

A practical checklist of prohibited-practice signals to triage early. If triggered: stop-and-review.

Thu Jan 22 2026 • EU AI Act, Prohibited, Article 5, Compliance

Quick triage

Run your system spec here:

  • /eu-ai-act

What “prohibited” means

If a prohibited-practice signal triggers, treat it as:

  • Stop-and-review
  • Gather evidence
  • Escalate to policy/legal review

Example prohibited signals (v1)

  • Social scoring that leads to detrimental treatment
  • Untargeted scraping to build facial recognition databases
  • Emotion inference in workplace/education (with narrow exceptions)
  • Sensitive-trait biometric categorization
  • Real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces for law enforcement (narrow exceptions)
EU AI Act Prohibited Practices: fast checklist (Article 5 signals) — architecture diagram 1
A practical checklist of prohibited-practice signals to triage early. If triggered: stop-and-review.
Mermaid source
flowchart LR\n  S[System spec] --> Q[Prohibited signals]\n  Q --> V[Verdict]\n  V -->|TRUE| STOP[Stop & review]\n  V -->|UNKNOWN| F[Answer follow-ups]\n  V -->|FALSE| NEXT[Continue triage]

Next guide

  • High-risk signals → /policy-guides/eu-ai-act-high-risk