In its 30 April 2024 ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) shared its assessment of the legality of Hadopi’s massive surveillance system. The ruling is disappointing. The CJEU has considerably watered…
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Press release of the Reclaim Your Face coalition.
On 8 December 2023, EU lawmakers celebrated reaching a deal on the long-awaited Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. Lead Parliamentarians reassured their colleagues that they had preserved strong protections…
For four weeks last October, the Paris criminal court held hearings in the “8 December” trial. In this case, seven people are being prosecuted for “terrorist criminal association”. All of them contest the charges, and…
After more than a year of mobilization against the CAF’s – the family branch of the french welfare system – practices of scoring welfare beneficiaries alongside the Stop Contrôles and Changer de Cap collectives1You can…
Investigative media Disclose has just revealed that for years, knowing that it was totally illegal, the French National Police force has been using the automated video-surveillance solutions from the Israeli company Briefcam. This technology includes…
On October 3, the trial of the so-called “December 8” case will begin. Seven people are prosecuted for “association of terrorist criminals” (“association de malfaiteurs terroristes”). In this case, the intelligence services in charge of…
The fediverse (a blend made from “federation” and “universe”) is a group of social media consisting of a multitude of platforms and software, each of them communicating with the others using a common protocol. Mastodon…
This op-ed follows the publication of our article ʻCriminalization of encryption: the 8 december caseʼ. It has been signed by more than 130 individuals and organisations. The full list of signatories is available here. It…
Translation from a paper originally published in French in October 19th, 2022
For the past year or so, we have been fighting the effects of the digitialization of French public administrations and the use of scoring…
This article was written on the basis of information related to the so-called “8 December” case (see the footnotes for a global overview of the case, we focus on the “numerical part” of it in…