Aurélie Jean is a doctor of science and an entrepreneur. She has notably published
On the other side of the Machine.
Voyage of a Scientist to the Land of Algorithms
(2019) and
Do Algorithms Make the Law?
(2022), published by L'Observatoire.
Since May 1, a new actor has been invited to the demonstrations: the drone equipped with a camera intended to monitor the processions over a period of up to several hours and over an area of a few kilometers.
Several towns in France have already been authorized to use this kind of technology to, I quote, “
ensure the maintenance of order
”.
This decision is reminiscent of the wish two years earlier - fortunately abandoned!
- the Minister of the Interior to make it compulsory to decipher the encrypted messaging of the French in order to supposedly fight against terrorism.
Are we gradually moving towards general surveillance?
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