While on the occasion of the Olympic Games, under the guise of
preventing terrorist risks, the majority voted, with the support ofdeputies LR and RN, the principle of algorithmic video surveillance, theSenate approved for its part in mid-June the principle facialrecognition. On June 22, the Niort court sentenced a protester fromSainte-Soline thanks to facial recognition, already widely used by thepolice. ---- An article almost thirty years old, published in Le Mondediplomatique, showed how the island of Singapore accumulated " economicand financial rolls of honor " while " imposing constant discipline onthe population " by " limited to the outward signs of democracy " [1].There were detailed descriptions of the program of theliberal-authoritarian state which seems to be the model favored by thecapitalists today. As early as 1994, this model combined a number offeatures that can today be found implemented in numerous " liberaldemocracies " in particular thanks to the intensive use of newinformation and communication technologies, to purposes of social control.This technological-authoritarian dystopia described in the work ofGeorge Orwell, 1984, continues to be called upon by political activistsin the face of the ever greater intrusion into our private lives by thepolice services and other more or less tied to states. Despite the workof many collectives, including La Quadrature du net, or campaigns like "Degooglisons internet " which inform, warn and offer alternatives tosurveillance capitalism and a standardized vision, and not reallyfocused on emancipation and solidarity, imposed by the Gafam, ourtechnophilia and our technodependence tend to increase every day more. Afew reminders of recent events should, however, encourage us tocollectively rethink our uses and our digital self-defense.Last March, in the midst of a movement of social protest, the deputiesof the majority with their allies LR and RN adopted, on the occasion ofthe " Olympic bill ", the principle of algorithmic surveillance. Thistechnology, about which the National Commission for Computing andFreedoms denounced in a report published in 2022 " the risks for therights and freedoms of individuals " [2]has been deployed on a largescale in China since the mid-2010s. , for purposes of social control.Its judicial effectiveness - which is in any case inadmissible from ourpoint of view- which is the argument put forward to justify itsimplementation, has for its part never been demonstrated Damien Leloup,"Adopted for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, algorithmic monitoring hasnever been proven", Le Monde, March 10, 2023.The bill " Orientation and programming of the Ministry of Justice2023-2027 " currently under discussion in the Senate goes even furtherin legal cybersurveillance since it proposes neither more nor less thanthe possibility for the forces of order to remotely activate connectedobjects as well as " experimentation " of facial recognition in thepublic space voted on June 12th. Facial recognition, which has alreadybeen put to work in practice, since ten days later it was possible tocondemn a person for his participation in the demonstration against themega-basins in Saint-Soline, for "throwing a stone at the during aprohibited demonstration " thanks to facial recognition [3] !Behind this large-scale deployment of technosurveillance hide majorfinancial issues. In a 2020 survey by journalists from Radio France'sinvestigation unit, they showed that "companies are positioningthemselves, with the Paris Olympics in 2024 in their sights, and a sevenbillion euro market at stake".[4]. Surveillance capitalism [5]is nolonger a dystopia, it is our daily life.David (UCL Chambery)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Reconnaissance-faciale-Le-pouvoir-veut-activer-les-telephones-a-distance_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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