Contrary to the main narrative, french parliamentarians are not only talking about the budget. Every year, they also revisit a familiar theme: an authoritarian drift, marked by increased security, surveillance, and censorship. After several months…
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Last May, the French government launched a working group aimed at legalizing real-time facial recognition. Far from being a surprise, this announcement is part of a series of proposals put forward by state officials, along…
Yesterday, we achieved a great victory before the Grenoble administrative court! In La Quadrature du Net vs the city of Moirans, Isère, we obtained a decision recognizing the illegality of Briefcam’s algorithmic video surveillance software.…
Since the end of 2023, the Marseille collective Le Nuage était sous nos pieds (The cloud was beneath our feet) has been investigating, analysing and fighting against the social, ecological and political impacts of digital…
One of the most serious obstacles in the fight against what we call Technopolice is the persistent opacity surrounding the use of surveillance technologies. Today, to adress this problem, La Quadrature du Net launches Attrap…
Over three years after we launched this legal action, the Orléans Administrative Court has just confirmed that an AI-powered audio surveillance device – i.e., microphones installed in public spaces and linked to local CCTV, with…
President Emmanuel Macron’s choice to dissolve the National Assembly in the wake of the European elections risks strengthening the clout of the far right on French politics. The ideology of the Rassemblement National, entirely focused…
The “experimentation” of Algorithmic Video-Surveillance (AVS) within the framework set by the “Olympic Games” law passed last year by the French Parliament is not an experiment at all: it is nothing more than a hypocritical…
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…
The article 7 of the Law on Olympic Games’ organization has been adopted by the national parliament, “Assemblée Nationale”, formalizing the introduction of Algorithmic Video-Surveillance in French Law, until December 2024. Due to the fuss…