After several months of investigation, as part of a European initiative coordinated by British NGO Fair Trials, La Quadrature has released a report on the state of predictive policing in France. In light of the information gathered, and given the dangers these systems...
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EU AI Act will fail commitment to ban biometric mass surveillance
Press release of the Reclaim Your Face coalition. On 8 December 2023, EU lawmakers celebrated reaching a deal on the long-awaited Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. Lead Parliamentarians reassured their colleagues that they had preserved strong protections for human...
Encryption discussion during the 8 December trial: from myth to reality
For four weeks last October, the Paris criminal court held hearings in the “8 December” trial. In this case, seven people are being prosecuted for “terrorist criminal association”. All of them contest the charges, and after three years of investigation there is not...
Scoring of welfare beneficiaries: the indecency of CAF’s algorithm now undeniable
After more than a year of mobilization against the CAF’s – the family branch of the french welfare system – practices of scoring welfare beneficiaries alongside the Stop Contrôles and Changer de Cap collectives1You can contact them at [email protected] and...
New fronts for 2024!
For 15 years La Quadrature du Net has been defending everyone’s rights and fundamental freedoms in the digital age. These 15 years of struggle would not have been possible without you — thank you so much! And we need you to keep fighting in 2024! You probably already...
French National Police Use of AI-Powered Video-Surveillance Subject to Criminal Law
Investigative media Disclose has just revealed that for years, knowing that it was totally illegal, the French National Police force has been using the automated video-surveillance solutions from the Israeli company Briefcam. This technology includes a “facial...
A coalition of 6 organisations takes EU’s dangerous terrorist content regulation to court
On 8 November 2023, a coalition of six organisations – La Quadrature du Net (LQDN), Access Now, ARTICLE 19, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Wikimedia France – filed a complaint before the French supreme administrative...
The beginning of the “8 December” trial is also the judgement of the right to privacy and encryption
On October 3, the trial of the so-called “December 8” case will begin. Seven people are prosecuted for “association of terrorist criminals” (“association de malfaiteurs terroristes”). In this case, the intelligence services in charge of the judicial investigation (the...
Is Meta’s arrival on the fediverse good news?
The fediverse (a blend made from “federation” and “universe”) is a group of social media consisting of a multitude of platforms and software, each of them communicating with the others using a common protocol. Mastodon is one of the software applications used to offer...
Op-ed: ʻEncryption protects our rights, privacy is not a crimeʼ
This op-ed follows the publication of our article ʻCriminalization of encryption: the 8 december caseʼ. It has been signed by more than 130 individuals and organisations. The full list of signatories is available here. It has been published yesterday on the website of...
Family Branch of the French Welfare System: technology in the service of exclusion and harassment of the most vulnerable
October 19th, 2022 For the past year or so, we have been fighting the effects of the digitialization of French public administrations and the use of scoring algorithms for the purpose of social control, as part of the Stop Contrôles collective1The “Stop Contrôles”...
Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case
This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called “8 December” case1For a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in this Revue Z article, this Lundi matin article, the following support committee...