🚨The French National Assembly (@AssembleeNat) has permitted the use of AI-powered mass surveillance at the 2024 Paris Olympics. This completely undermines the EU’s ongoing efforts to regulate AI and protect fundamental rights through the #AIAct
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While France promotes itself as a champion of human rights globally, its decision to legalize AI-powered mass surveillance during the Olympics will lead to an all-out assault on the rights to privacy, protest, and freedom of assembly and expression.
This decision, which legalizes the use of AI-powered surveillance for the first time in France and the EU, risks permanently transforming France into a dystopian surveillance state, and allowing large-scale violations of human rights elsewhere in the bloc.
As an influential member state of the EU, France is setting a worrying precedent at a time when the bloc should be focusing on cementing rights protections in the AI Act.
The @Europarl_EN must urgently take a strong position on banning mass surveillance technologies, including remote biometric identification and categorization in public spaces.
Amnesty International, alongside a coalition of civil society organizations led by the European Digital Rights Network (@edri), has been calling for EU Regulation on Artificial Intelligence to protect and promote human rights. amnesty.eu/news/an-eu-art…
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