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"Augmented" cameras at the 2024 Olympics: "One step closer to the surveillance society"

2023-01-27T14:39:48.433Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - At the Paris Olympics in 2024, surveillance cameras equipped with artificial intelligence will make it possible to detect suspicious behavior. Importing Chinese technologies into France raises ethical issues, warns Thierry Wolton.


Thierry Wolton is the author, in particular of

A world history of communism

in three volumes at Grasset, which made an event:

Les Executioners

(2015),

Les Victimes

(2016),

Les Complices

(2017), price Today 2018. He has just published

r Les nouvelles routes de notre servitude

, published by Grasset.

The Paris Olympic Games will be placed under the eye of "augmented" surveillance cameras, equipped with artificial intelligence in the form of algorithms capable of detecting suspicious behavior.

The final decision on their installation depends on the legislative power.

This is to ensure the safety of the sites, the athletes and the millions of tourists who will flock to the capital.

Such mass surveillance raises questions, not about its usefulness, but about the risks it poses to our freedoms.

These cameras will be programmed, thanks to algorithms, to report what seems suspicious: gatherings, isolated and immobile people...

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Source: lefigaro

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