The Senate has approved the controversial article of the 2024 Olympics bill which concerns algorithmic surveillance. It involves mobilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to detect atypical situations among the crowd. All that is missing is a solemn vote on January 31, 2023, the outcome of which is hardly in doubt. On the 25th, the Senate completed … Read more
In two short days, the senators went to the end of the bill on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Before the groups’ explanations of vote and the solemn vote, scheduled for January 31, the point on the main measures of the text . Video surveillance “augmented” by artificial intelligence tested until 2025 This … Read more
549 days. This is the time remaining before the opening ceremony, along the Seine, of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. “We are facing a relentless countdown”, warns the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, at the opening of the examination in the Senate of the bill on the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024. … Read more
Posted Oct 26, 2022 3:51 PMUpdated Oct 26, 2022, 4:02 PM “An extensive legislative arsenal, modernization of techniques”. The Senate fact-finding mission led by Claude Raynal (PS) and Jean-Paul Husson (LR) on the fight against tax evasion makes a fairly positive judgment on the actions carried out since the anti-fraud law 2018 . Its report, … Read more
The Senate is positioning itself on the use of facial recognition. On May 11, 2022, Senators Marc-Philippe Daubresse, Arnaud de Belenet and Jérôme Durai presented a report in which they demand the creation of a European controller the reliability of facial recognition algorithms. The Senate calls for a European framework for the use of facial … Read more
The Senate seeks to protect itself from biometric surveillance – with a “sandbox” system for biometric surveillance. The Senate Law Commission has published a contradictory report on biometrics, which aims both to ensure that France does not become a country of mass biometric surveillance and to recommend the establishment of a sand box three-year regulatory … Read more
The fact-finding mission on facial recognition in the public space made its proposals on May 11. Painting a portrait of the tool where prohibition must be the rule, she invites the executive to take up the subject before the 2024 Olympics. “It is time to intervene on this question, which is not a technical problem … Read more
Senators Marc-Philippe Daubresse (Union for a Popular Movement), Arnaud de Belenet (Centrist Union) and Jérôme Durain (Socialist, Ecologist and Republican Group) presented on May 11 the results of a report on the use of biometric recognition in public space. The spectrum of mass surveillance “It is essential to build a collective response to the use … Read more
Published on May 12, 2022by Lucas Boncourt for Localtis Digital, Security While Europe is making progress on the regulation of artificial intelligence (our article of April 22, 2021) – of which facial recognition is one of the applications – the Senate wished to carry out its own reflection in 2020 on a subject which requires … Read more