"It Saves Time": the French Senate Extends the Video Surveillance by IA Despite the Accusations of Mass Surveillance

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Senators voted this Tuesday to extend the algorithmic video surveillance, experienced at the Paris Olympics, until 2030.Use artificial intelligence to better monitor public spaces and prevent dangers? French senators said yes to the extension of algorithmic video surveillance (VSA), during the vote of the Ripost law on Tuesday, May 26. Initially experienced to secure the Olympic Games of 2024, the VSA uses artificial intelligence tools to treat …

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IA video surveillance extended by the Senate The upper house decided this Tuesday, May 26, by massively adopting the Ripost bill, extending the experiment of algorithmic video surveillance until the end of 2030.This decision marks a decisive step — and for many, worryingly — in the integration of artificial intelligence into the service of public security, opening the door wide to abuses that some no longer hesitate to call authoritarians.