Moves to ban live “Big Brother” facial recognition technology from being deployed across the streets of the EU will be tested in a key vote at the European parliament on Thursday. The amendment is part of a package of proposals for the world’s first artificial intelligence laws, which could see firms fined up to €10m (£8.7m) or removed from trading within the EU for breaches of the rules. But the ban is expected to be challenged by a group of centre-right MEPs on the grounds that biometric scanning should be deployed to combat serious crime such as terrorism. An amendment…