The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, legal horse for security arsenal – Liberation

Artificial intelligence applied to video surveillance, offense of intrusion into sports grounds, generalization of administrative investigations… In the bill relating to the Olympic Games voted on Tuesday in the Senate hide several measures likely to profoundly modify our security policies.

“An exceptional event requiring exceptional means to preserve its festive character.” This justifies the bill relating to the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024, according to the words of the Senate Law Committee. The text must be voted there without incident this Tuesday, before taking the shuttle for the National Assembly. The executive and the Upper House of Parliament agree on a postulate: in Olympia, “festivities” rhyme with “security”. A third of the twenty or so articles in this bill deal with this theme. It speaks in particular of artificial intelligence applied to video surveillance (or “algorithmic video surveillance”), the generalization of administrative (police) investigations concerning participants in major events or the creation of new offenses of intrusion into sports arenas. and on the ground. Provisions that pave the way for profound societal changes, especially since they are intended to come into force before the Games and to be made permanent thereafter. As is often the case in public security policies, one day’s exceptions are the next day’s rules.

Article 7

AI-assisted cameras

Article 7 is the most copious and the most discussed of the law. It aims to allow the use of “processing comprising an artificial intelligence system” (became “algorithmic processing” in the Senate) concerning