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Fears raised over use of AI in video surveillance of 2024 Paris Olympics

The French parliament is currently debating draft legislation on special measures the government is seeking to introduce for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in France in 2024. While these contain relatively uncontroversial moves like the lifting of restrictions on Sunday shopping and tougher fines for trouble-makers at sporting events, they also include the “experimental” introduction of algorithmic video surveillance of the public, a technology that is strongly opposed by a number of rights groups and legal experts. Jérôme Hourdeaux reports.

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Draft legislation currently passing through France’s two parliamentary chambers, the Senate and the National Assembly, sets out a series of special measures the government is seeking to introduce for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Paris and other French sites in the summer of 2024.

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