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Olympics 2024: Parliament widely adopts the Olympic bill and its cameras with algorithms

2023-04-12T18:47:39.020Z


This text, on security, includes in particular the measure on algorithmic video surveillance, which is already being debated.


By a final vote in the Senate, Parliament definitively adopted on Wednesday the text prepared by the government for the Olympic Games-2024, whose important "protection" component convinces the right, unlike the left which fears a security Trojan horse .

"

Place for the games

", launched the rapporteur LR Agnès Canayer.

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The vote on the compromise recorded in the joint joint committee was won by 252 votes "for" and 27 "against" (Communists and Ecologists).

The Socialists abstained.

The National Assembly had largely approved the text on Tuesday.

But left-wing deputies have already warned that they would seize the Constitutional Council.

This text "

integrates all the measures essential to the smooth running of the Games (...), while ensuring full respect for the rights and freedoms of our fellow citizens

", underlined the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.

The Senate “

has multiplied the safeguards, controls, guarantees

”, noted Ms. Canayer.

Algorithmic video surveillance, the text's flagship measure, nevertheless raises concerns.

The goal: for algorithms to feed on images from cameras and drones to more quickly identify potentially dangerous “events”, such as the start of a crowd movement or the abandonment of luggage, and report them to the teams. security who scrutinize the gatherings behind their screens.

But the list of “events” to be detected will be fixed later, which does not reassure opponents of the text.

The experiment, which could begin as soon as the promulgation and concern the next Rugby World Cup (September 8-October 28), should theoretically end on March 31, 2025.

The images, which may be analyzed using algorithms from private companies, may be kept for a maximum of 12 months.

The executive and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, invoke the need to secure the millions of visitors, insists on the safeguards, and the absence of facial recognition.

But left-wing elected officials, associations such as Amnesty and La Quadrature du net or the Conseil national des barreaux are against it.

Some believe that the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) and Paralympic Games (August 28-September 8) will only serve as a showcase to perpetuate these "augmented cameras", and to generalize their use for the surveillance of the entire population.

Source: lefigaro

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