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Let the Games Begin: France’s Olympic Law Legitimizes Automated Surveillance
- jruohonen 3y agoWhile live face recognition by law enforcement in public spaces is prohibited here, no one really even knows what the private sector is doing. According to a recent article in the leading local newspaper, "gait recognition" and the like are already widely deployed across Helsinki. No parliamentary or city council hearings, no reports from the DPA, nothing public. Once the AI Act is enacted, I hope some party will litigate. Besides, the legality is already unclear even without the act. EDIT: As usual, the question is not about CCTV as such, which is of course useful in post mortem investigations of serious crimes, but about mindless pursuing of techno-utopian surveillance that really benefits no one (except those selling the technology). Both private sector patrols and law enforcement already have big problems with drug dealing and violence in some parts of the city, and this stuff does nothing to help with that. Nor have there been impact assessments or anything alike.