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The Olympic Games, starting next month in Paris, promise to be not only a significant event, which will bring together about three million people, but large-scale monitoring and facial recognition systems will be used there.
Plans to use AI to scan thousands of athletes, coaches and millions of spectators flocking to Paris are nothing more than a form of covert surveillance that could become a pretext for normalizing surveillance, human rights activists warn.
In recent months, French authorities have tested AI surveillance systems at train stations, concerts and soccer matches.
These systems are capable of scanning crowds, checking for thrown objects, detecting weapons, and performing other tasks. The French government has recruited four companies to this task: Videtics, Orange Business, ChapsVision and Wintics.
“The Olympics are a huge opportunity to test this type of surveillance under the guise of security concerns, and it will pave the way for even more intrusive systems such as facial recognition,” said Katia Roux, director of advocacy at Amnesty International France.
This poses the risk that unsupervised crowd monitoring and facial recognition will become a daily reality, violating privacy rights and civil liberties.
Concerns about uncontrolled surveillance have already arisen at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. At the time, the Chinese MY2022 app, required to be installed as part of COVID-19 control, was suspected of collecting and storing large amounts of confidential data from athletes and other participants in the games.
According to research, this application could collect, store and transmit sensitive medical data, often not encrypted. Additionally, censorship and surveillance features have been identified, prompting further criticism and concerns about digital rights violations.
Thus, the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, in addition to sporting achievements, once again draw attention to issues of digital rights and privacy.
It is important to continue discussion and public scrutiny of these technologies to ensure they do not become a tool for massive human rights violations.
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Plans to use AI to scan thousands of athletes, coaches and millions of spectators flocking to Paris are nothing more than a form of covert surveillance that could become a pretext for normalizing surveillance, human rights activists warn.
In recent months, French authorities have tested AI surveillance systems at train stations, concerts and soccer matches.
These systems are capable of scanning crowds, checking for thrown objects, detecting weapons, and performing other tasks. The French government has recruited four companies to this task: Videtics, Orange Business, ChapsVision and Wintics.
“The Olympics are a huge opportunity to test this type of surveillance under the guise of security concerns, and it will pave the way for even more intrusive systems such as facial recognition,” said Katia Roux, director of advocacy at Amnesty International France.
This poses the risk that unsupervised crowd monitoring and facial recognition will become a daily reality, violating privacy rights and civil liberties.
Concerns about uncontrolled surveillance have already arisen at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. At the time, the Chinese MY2022 app, required to be installed as part of COVID-19 control, was suspected of collecting and storing large amounts of confidential data from athletes and other participants in the games.
According to research, this application could collect, store and transmit sensitive medical data, often not encrypted. Additionally, censorship and surveillance features have been identified, prompting further criticism and concerns about digital rights violations.
Thus, the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, in addition to sporting achievements, once again draw attention to issues of digital rights and privacy.
It is important to continue discussion and public scrutiny of these technologies to ensure they do not become a tool for massive human rights violations.
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