Wed 14 June 2023:

French Senate has adopted a draft law about testing public facial recognition technologies, local media reported.

The draft law was adopted on Monday with 226 votes in favor, while 117 left-wing senators rejected it, the daily Le Monde said.

It aims to create a legal framework to test, for three years, the use of biometric recognition by judiciary investigators and intelligence authorities.

The use of real-time facial recognition is widely contested by human rights organizations and some representatives.

This option will be used only for terror suspects and by intelligence authorities, Le Monde explained.

Judiciary investigators can request real-time facial recognition for kidnappings of children and extremely grave criminal cases.

Identity in a click

France Television recently conducted a series of tests using facial recognition in the streets of Paris, and the results were disconcerting for anyone who guards their privacy.

A journalist, accompanied by a facial recognition specialist, took a photograph of a young woman sitting in a café. Within 20 seconds he had identified her.

“She comes from Lyon. She is registered on nannying websites,” says Anis Ayan artificial intelligence engineer.

A quick check with the person in the photo and her friend confirmed that the information he had found out about her was all correct.

“It’s a little bit scary. Especially when I’m not from here, when we find ourselves in another city. I’m not the kind of person to put pictures on the internet, so that I can be found like that is surprising,” she said.

In many cities in China, surveillance cameras make it possible to identify passers-by almost instantaneously. Despite the controversy, Paris wants to install them to improve security for the 2024 Olympic Games.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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