A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the legal case brought by students against the use by the Institute of Distant Study of the University of Paris 8 of the algorithmic exam e-proctoring platform…
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Automated Video Surveillance (AVS) has dug its roots and wired its plugs in France, with support from the central government, other local authorities and the French data protection authority, the CNIL (refer to our article…
In September 2019, La Quadrature du Net started an initiative called “Technopolice” to collect information about the progressive outbreak of automated surveillance in France. This action reached a new milestone this Saturday, September 24 as…
Three years ago, La Quadrature du Net started an initiative called « Technopolice » to gather information relating to all technologies deployed by the police in our cities. Today, we have come to a point where…
Artificial intelligence-assisted Video Surveillance (or “AVS”) is creeping into our cities, without transparency and completely illegally. For several years, we have been fighting against these technologies, in particular by challenging them before the courts. We…
Last week, La Quadrature du Net submitted its position on so-called “algorithmic” or “automated” video surveillance (also known as “Artificial intelligence-assisted video surveillance” or “AI video surveillance”) to the CNIL [the French Data protection authority].…
As the French presidential election approaches, we look back on what Emmanuel Macron’s first term in office and his party’s majority in the National Assembly have meant in terms of surveillance and censorship.
The pieces of…
Although it claims to protect our liberties, the EU’s draft text on artificial intelligence (AI), presented by Margrethe Vestager, actually promotes the accelerated development of all aspects of AI, in particular for security purposes. Loaded…
On 20 July 2021, the government proposed a new security bill which will, among other things, authorize police drones, the same drones that our collective efforts managed to reject four times last year. The government…
On July 16 2021, the Luxembourg Data Protection Agency finally rendered its opinion on the collective legal action we and 10 000 more people took in May 2018 against Amazon. This decision breaks a three-year…