PARIS – A controversial video surveillance system to be used during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a legislative hurdle on Wednesday amid protests from left-leaning French politicians and digital rights NGOs, who argue it violates privacy standards. violates.
The Law Committee of the National Assembly approved the system, but also voted To limit the duration of the temporary program to December 24, 2024 instead of June 2025.
The plan introduced by the French government involves experimental large-scale, real-time camera systems backed by an algorithm to detect suspicious behaviour, including unsafe luggage and dangerous crowd movements such as stampedes.
Earlier this week, civil society groups in France and beyond – including La Quadrature du Nat, Access Now and Amnesty International – wrote An op-ed in Le Monde Raising concerns about what he argued was a “worrying precedent” that France could set in the EU.
There is a risk that the measures, introduced as temporary, may become permanent, and they will likely not comply with EU rules. artificial intelligence actGroups also argue.
Nearly 90 left-leaning lawmakers signed a petition launched by La Quadrature du Net to scrap Article 7, which includes an AI-powered surveillance system. However, they failed to garner enough votes to remove it from the bill.
MPs also voted to ensure the general public better information where are the cameras and where Involve Cyber Security Agency ANSSI on top of privacy regulator CNIL. they too widened the pool Images and data that can be used to train algorithms ahead of the Olympics.
The bill will go to a full plenum vote on March 21 for final approval.