A bill, adopted in the Council of Ministers, includes a certain number of security or experiments in terms of security, advertising, or transport.
by Philippe le Coeur
Officially, it is a text only recurring “very technical points”. With one objective: to carry out legislative arrangements deemed necessary for the smooth running of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024 (from July 26 to August 11, then from August 28 to September 8). That this concerns the framework of competitions, but also – even above all – the environment of the event.
The bill relating to the Games, which was adopted in the Council of Ministers on Thursday, December 22, and which will be submitted to the Senate in January 2023, consists in having a succession of derogations or succession of derogations or derogations, through nineteen articles, of experiments.
beyond their claimed technicality, a certain number of these provisions – whose voting by parliament is expected in the first half of 2023 – could however have a range far from trivial. This is the case in terms of security, one of the major challenges of these games.
If the use of facial recognition is explicitly excluded in the text of the bill, the latter proposes to establish an “experimental and temporary” legal framework to “improve” the video surveillance devices, by implementing Artificial intelligence algorithms capable of detecting “abnormal situations”. This will concern the places welcoming competitions but also the means of transport.
The temporary will nevertheless extend far beyond games, until June 30, 2025. The government considers that it will take a few months of use as part of other events (sports, festive, cultural) Exhibited at risk of terrorist acts or serious damage to the safety of people to be able to take stock of the operation of this tool. 2> “Manage crowd movements”
With these “intelligent, but anonymized algorithms, we can manage crowd crowd movements”, explained the Minister of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, October 12 in front of the senators.
“It is a question of targeting not this or that individual, but people responding to such reporting, or even categories of gestures, such as the deterioration of public goods”, had detailed, a few days later in the Senate also , the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The text of the bill specifies in this case that it is a question, with these algorithmic treatments, of proceeding “exclusively to a report of attention, strictly limited to the indication of the event (s) they have been programmed to detect “. The use of this tool cannot lead to “no individual decision or act of prosecution”.
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