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That law also allows authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who attend prohibited events " such as Budapest Pride " and can come with fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian forints ($546).

David Bedo, a lawmaker with the opposition Momentum party who participated in the attempted blockade, said before the vote that Orban and Fidesz for the past 15 years "have been dismantling democracy and the rule of law, and in the past two or three months, we see that this process has been sped up."

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Adam Remport, a lawyer with the HCLU, said that while Hungary has used facial recognition tools since 2015 assist police in criminal investigations and finding missing persons, the recent law banning Pride allows the technology to be used in a much broader and problematic manner. That includes for monitoring and deterring political protests.

"One of the most fundamental problems is its invasiveness, just the sheer scale of the intrusion that happens when you apply mass surveillance to a crowd," Remport said.

"More salient in this case is the effect on the freedom of assembly, specifically the chilling effect that arises when people are scared to go out and show their political or ideological beliefs for fear of being persecuted," he added.