France likely to use AI-powered surveillance at Paris Olympics despite outcry | Civil rights groups have a lot of warnings for France

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A hot potato: In a rare (these days) story about artificial intelligence of the non-generative type, France's National Assembly has approved the use of AI to aid in video surveillance of the 2024 Paris Olympics. They say the proposed surveillance measures violate international human rights law as they contravene the principles of necessity and proportionality, and pose unacceptable risks to fundamental rights, such as the right to privacy, the freedom of assembly and association, and the right to non-discrimination. Daniel Leufer, the policy advisor at digital rights organization Access Now, said, "You can do two things: object detection or analysis of human behavior - the latter is the processing of biometric data

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