US EditionTobacco Offices: Cnil Bans Ai Cameras to Assess Client Age
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The Data Protection Officer considers cameras installed in certain tobacco offices to be non-compliant in order to verify the age of the clients. She warns against a banality of surveillance, while leaving a time limit for the buralists to comply.
Several buralists experimented with age estimation devices based on the live analysis of facial features. The French data protection "constable" estimated on Friday that their use was neither "necessary nor proportionate".
According to the National Commission on Informatics and Freedoms, these cameras "have a risk of error" and their use is neither "necessary nor proportionate".
The use of these monitoring devices to assess the age of clients, in the context of the sale of tobacco or alcohol, is considered excessive by the data protection officer.
After studying the subject for almost four months, the CNIL has rendered its verdict: the use of increased cameras to control the age of clients among the buralists is not the appropriate solution to combat the consumption of tobacco or gambling among minors in France. Neither necessary nor
These devices are used in some tobacconists to help retailers limit the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling to those under 18. The CNIL considers them disproportionate, unnecessary, and non-compliant with the GDPR, the European regulation that protects our personal data.
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