Free tool · Article 5
Prohibited Practices Screener
Eight yes/no checks. The screener flags any ground on which your system risks Article 5 exposure — and tells you exactly which one. Article 5 has been enforceable since 2 February 2025 with fines up to €35M / 7% of turnover.
Prohibited Practices Screener
Eight yes/no checks against Article 5.
Article 5(1)(a)
Does the system use subliminal techniques, manipulative cues, or deceptive techniques to materially distort a person's behaviour in a way likely to cause significant harm?
Targets dark-pattern AI specifically engineered to manipulate; normal personalisation, recommendation, or advertising is out of scope.
Article 5(1)(b)
Does it exploit vulnerabilities of a person or group due to age, disability, or socioeconomic situation, in a way that distorts behaviour and causes significant harm?
Predatory designs aimed at children, people with cognitive impairments, or people in financial distress.
Article 5(1)(c)
Is this an AI system that classifies natural persons over time based on social behaviour or inferred personal traits, where the resulting score causes detrimental treatment in unrelated contexts or disproportionate consequences?
Aimed at general-purpose social scoring. Standard credit scoring is regulated as high-risk (Annex III §5), not prohibited.
Article 5(1)(d)
Does it assess the risk of a person committing a criminal offence solely based on profiling or personality traits?
Predictive policing of individuals based on profile alone. AI used to support an investigation triggered by other evidence is not prohibited.
Article 5(1)(e)
Does it create or expand a facial-recognition database through untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV?
Aimed at Clearview-style untargeted scraping. Targeted enrolment from your own customers is not prohibited (but is GDPR-regulated).
Article 5(1)(f)
Does it infer the emotional state of natural persons in the workplace or in education?
Catches a real category of 'employee wellness' SaaS and certain proctoring tools. Narrow carve-outs for medical and safety reasons.
Article 5(1)(g)
Does it categorise people biometrically to infer race, political opinions, trade-union membership, religious belief, sex life, or sexual orientation?
Aimed at biometric inference of sensitive attributes. Narrow law-enforcement carve-outs.
Article 5(1)(h)
Is it used for real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law-enforcement purposes?
Real-time public-space facial recognition for law enforcement. Three narrow exceptions exist; otherwise prohibited.
Need to document this in writing?
Every classification in Klarvo automatically runs the Article 5 screener and stores the result with a timestamp — the audit-defensible answer the regulator wants to see.
Free tier · Full KlarvoEngine classification · No credit card