concerning law enforcement exemptions in the draft AI act transparency guidelines

I've finished reading the Draft Guidelines for transparency requirement under the AI Act that are out for comment until the 3rd of June, and a variety of exemptions for law enforcement and similar actors greatly concern me. I haven't seen media pick this up in any meaningful way, but this should be highlighted and discussed. ☁️☁️☁️ A short explanation upfront: Transparency requirements under Art. 50 AI Act refer to providers (and some deployers)1 of AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons needing to make sure that the users are informed about interacting with an AI system, and outputs being marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. That covers, for example, AI-enabled voice assistants, chatbots in various settings (even on social media), (humanoid) robots and AI companions, AI avatars, coding agents and agentic AI systems. Depending on the provision, transparency can be done via direct disclosure to users (such…