PARIS — The French knowledge safety authority’s president Marie-Laure Denis warned Tuesday towards utilizing facial recognition as a part of the 2024 Paris Summer time Olympics safety toolkit.
“The members of the CNIL’s school name on parliamentarians to not introduce facial recognition, that’s to say the identification of individuals on the fly within the public area,” she advised Franceinfo.
The French authorities is searching for to ramp up France’s arsenal of surveillance powers to make sure the protection of the thousands and thousands of vacationers anticipated for the 2024 Paris Summer time Olympics. The plans embrace AI-powered cameras for the primary time — however not facial recognition.
The Senate’s plenary session begins to vote right now on the legislation introducing the brand new powers. Senators are divided between those that wish to add privateness safeguards and those that wish to push the surveillance and safety arsenal additional, primarily by introducing facial recognition.
“The modification [to include facial recognition] was rejected within the Senate’s legislation committee, however it may come again [in the plenary session],” the CNIL’s chief cautioned.
Civil liberties NGOs corresponding to La Quadrature du Internet and the Human Rights League are at present campaigning towards the experimental AI-powered surveillance cameras. Denis nonetheless tried to assuage considerations.
The CNIL will monitor algorithmic coaching to make sure there isn’t a bias and that footage of individuals is deleted in due time, she stated. The experiment will “not essentially” turn into everlasting, she added.
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