Italy’s opening to real-time biometric identification under the EU AI Act is less a camera story than a control story: who can use live face matching, when, and how tightly it stays boxed in.
The Digital Services Act pushes online enforcement decisions into the open, forcing platforms to explain why content is removed, deprioritized, or an account is suspended.
Proton VPN’s transparency pitch puts open-source code, public audits, and jurisdiction in the same frame, but those controls answer different questions and leave different blind spots.
As AI enters decision-making processes, the real challenge is not only controlling algorithms but preserving autonomy, critical thinking, and responsibility.