The return of QR code control for the Paris 2024 Olympics ----
Algorithmic video surveillance, body scanners and now QR codes:surveillance technologies will be omnipresent to secure the Paris 2024
Olympic and Paralympic Games. Widely used during the health crisis, the
QR code appears as a small image composed of black squares on a
background white which can be scanned to access certain information. The
announcement of his return was made by Darmanin at the beginning of
April, during the unveiling of the security plan planned for the opening
ceremony of the Olympic Games in July 2024.
The presentation of a QR code will be necessary to enter certain areas
for the duration of the Paris 2024 Games: around the places of
ceremonies, events or where athletes and staff live. The aim is to
filter entries into these areas which are particularly sensitive to the
risk of attacks but it leads to restricting the freedom of movement of
all individuals (worker, tourist, local resident, etc.).
This QR code is an unprecedented form of control for a sporting event.
To function correctly, these tools require the implementation of
databases. A QR code is, in reality, nothing more than a bar code which,
by scanning it, allows you to refer to a reference in a database to
check its veracity. A QR code can therefore be considered as the tree
that hides the forest. And this forest is that of personal data and the
multiplication of files.
It will indeed be necessary to identify a lot of information to
implement this system during the Paris 2024 Games alone, if only in
relation to the identity of each of the citizens who will be forced to
use it. A registration platform should be online on May 10. It will
generate the QR codes. These benefit from a certain ease of use,
provided you have a smartphone (if you don't, you will need to print the
QR code and be careful not to lose it). This ease of use can make us
forget the major challenge of data collection - the outcome of which we
are never sure of. This risk is all the greater as we do not yet know
precisely the legal regime for data processing implemented in this
context, the retention period of the information or the precise data
that will be collected.
The choice of QR codes is not trivial. On the contrary, it is part of
the dynamic of techno-solutionism which makes the use of technological
tools a principle and a solution to any human problem, without thinking
about the consequences of this systematic use. It also contributes to
the habituation of citizens to these tools in a context where everyone
is already subject to direct and indirect pressure from large digital
companies.
This technology contributes to the advent of a surveillance society to
which individuals are gradually becoming accustomed.
Source: Theconversation.com
The arrested protester's guide!
Are we controlling you? Are we arresting you? Have you been accused of
an infraction? Will we judge you in immediate appearance? Are we
ignoring you? This short guide published by the Magistracy Union
explains your rights and the legal progress of the procedures. It also
offers you practical advice on how to best react to each situation.
In recent years, the right to demonstrate has suffered numerous attacks.
By displaying the objective of fighting terrorism or guaranteeing the
safety of people, so-called security laws restrict the freedoms of citizens.
While at each demonstration arbitrary arrests and detentions are
denounced, this guide outlines the range of situations with which
demonstrators may be confronted and recalls the rights and duties of
citizens (and public authorities) in order to guarantee everyone the
right to demonstrate, one of the major expressions of democracy.
Everything you need to know in the event of a stop or arrest: a
practical, educational and accessible book. A new, updated edition of
recent legislation. Content also accessible for free online (the
previous update was downloaded nearly 15,000 times)
Source: syndicat-magistrature.fr
Surveillance of intelligence services in France
More than 20,000 people in France are currently the subject of
surveillance by the intelligence services. The techniques are
increasingly sophisticated and do not only target terrorism or serious
crime.
These surveillance methods are not new, but their use has increased,
particularly since the Intelligence law of 2015. The reports of the
National Commission for the Control of Intelligence Techniques (CNCTR),
published every year since 2016, report on this increase.
The number of people geolocated in real time by the intelligence
services has increased tenfold in seven years, going from 1,140 cases in
2015 to 10,901 in 2022. The capture of words and images in a private
place (from the installation of microphones or cameras in a home to the
capture of the sound environment via a spied on smartphone, for example)
experienced an increase of 36% between 2016 and 2022, going from 2427 to
3314 cases. "There were just under 23,000 people monitored" in 2021, we
learn in the latest CNCTR report. And just under 21,000 in 2022.
Since 1991, the number of telephone lines that can be listened to
simultaneously has tripled, from 1180 then to 3800 today. Defenders of
these surveillance methods often justify themselves by appealing to
consensual causes, such as the fight against terrorism, organized crime,
or even child crime.
"This surveillance begins with the activity of the intelligence
services. Identity checks that put you in the sights of the services,
cameras and microphones hidden around militant places or in bookstores,
GPS beacons, interceptions, analysis of metadata, etc. Everything is
good to serve political priorities and justify the sustainability of
credits . The share of intelligence activity devoted to the surveillance
of activists - made a priority since the 2019 national intelligence
strategy - has doubled under Macron, going from at least 6% of total
surveillance measures in 2017 to more by 12% in 2022.
After the administrative file, after the intelligence notes, comes the
stage of legal investigations. Here again, as the Lafarge affair
illustrates, surveillance involves the use of video surveillance - more
than 100,000 cameras on public roads today - and then systematic
biometric identification, notably via facial recognition. and the TAJ
file, or when this is not possible by the identity card and passport
file, the infamous TES file, which is thus misused.
As a reminder, the use of facial recognition via the TAJ file is not
science fiction. This is not the exception either. It is now used at
least 1,600 times a day by the police, even though this dystopian method
of identification has never been authorized by law and, in fact, its use
is not controlled by the authorities. judicial authority.
This facial recognition is used even for trivial offenses, notably when
it comes to weaponizing the repression of political opponents as
illustrated by last week's judgments in Niort, a year after
Sainte-Soline. . And this while European law normally imposes a
criterion of "absolute necessity".
Surveillance finally results from the intersection of all the digital
traces left throughout our lives and our social activities. In this case
and others, we are seeing an increase in requisitions on social networks
like Twitter or Facebook, spying on telephone conversations and SMS
messages, monitoring of correspondence and movements of entire groups of
people via their metadata, monitoring their publications and readings,
requisitioning their banking histories or files held by social services,
etc. All, often on the sole basis of vague suspicions. And the result is
a systematic violation of their privacy then thrown to the police, who
do not hesitate to use it to intimidate or attempt to humiliate during
interrogations, and to construct a biased vision of reality that can
corroborate their fantasies.» Extract from the text read by a member of
Quadrature du Net on April 5, 2024 during the gathering in front of the
Aix-en-Provence court, on the occasion of the 2 new indictments in the
Lafarge affair
Source: Basta! (article by Camille Stineau) and laquadrature.net
More than 75,000 euros for a firecracker thrown at police officers!
In 2016, the protest against the new labor law, the El Khomri law, is
very strong throughout France. The demonstrations are increasing. On
Thursday June 2, 2016, Maxime, entertainment worker and community
activist, took part in a new day of mobilization in Toulouse against
this new Labor law from the Valls government.
At the end of the parade, responsible for clearing the public highway,
police officers were injured by firecrackers and agricultural "bombs"
thrown by demonstrators at the back of the procession.
Maxime is named by one of the police officers as one of the
troublemakers. He was arrested shortly after but denied having thrown
firecrackers.
Tried at the criminal court in October 2016, he was sentenced to three
months in prison for "violence with a weapon against an agent holding
public authority leading to ITTs lasting more than eight days". Even
though he maintains his innocence, this demonstrator is not appealing.
The legal story has only just begun.
Indeed, very quickly, several police officers complained of suffering
from "significant hearing problems", tinnitus more precisely, linked to
the throwing of these firecrackers.
These law enforcement officers then ask to send their file to the civil
interests chamber of the court to have their damage recognized and to
set an amount of damages. But civil procedures are long, months go by,
without worrying anyone. But two of the ten civil party police officers
declare that they have been suffering from permanent tinnitus since that
famous June 2, 2016. They are having medical assessments carried out.
The state judicial agent, representing the Ministry of the Interior,
asks the courts to assess "future health expenses" for hearing aids and
reimbursement of sick leave benefits for these injured police officers.
On December 8, 2020, the judgment of the Toulouse Criminal Court fell.
Maxime is ordered to pay 81,950 euros in damages. The protester is in
shock and appeals.
But eight years after the events, justice has just confirmed this
judgment. On March 18, 2024, the Toulouse Court of Appeal has just
sentenced Maxime.
He will ultimately have to pay 76,430 euros in damages to these law
enforcement agents. An incredible sum for a firecracker throw that he
always denies having thrown!
Source: francetvinfo.fr
Gennevilliers: mothers block school principals' offices and end up at
the police station
For them, it was one action among many others for their school to
reintegrate the priority education network (REP). Mobilized since
February, after rallies, "dead school" days or even referral to the
Minister of National Education, mothers from Gennevilliers (Hauts de
Seine, 92) blocked the offices of the directors of the Henri school
group -Wallon for about an hour last Thursday. Their goal? Obtain an
interview with the district inspector. Instead, their action this
morning earned them an interview at the police station and a reminder of
the law.
The inspector, traveling to another school that day, asked the
principals to call the police if the mothers did not leave the premises.
Of the fortnight, half left before the officials arrived. Seven others
remained, "calmly and without aggression", according to several
testimonies. The police then asked them to follow them to the police
station.
"We were interviewed one by one, we were intimidated, telling us that we
risked police custody and a fine of 680 euros if we did it again,"
denounces Sofia, the president of the parents' representatives. "We have
been waiting since 2015 for the school to be reintegrated into REP.»
The Henri-Wallon school group is located in the popular Agnettes
district but it depends on the Pasteur college, on the more advantaged
side, which left the priority education network nine years ago. The IPS
(social position index) of this school group is however similar to that
of schools classified REP + in the municipality. It also has the lowest
student language scores in the city.
Source: leparisien.fr
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