Today sees the start of the plenary debate of the draft law on the simplification of economic life at the French National Assembly. A seemingly technical law, with obscure issues, it marks a new show of force in the service of industry, and to the detriment of human...
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General mobilisation against the legalisation of algorithmic video surveillance!
During the end of year holidays, and without fanfare, the government prepared the introduction of a new legislation regarding the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. As expected, this draft law pave the way for the generalization of algorithmic video surveillance....
Algorithmic e-proctoring of exams: TestWe will not survive the winter
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the legal case brought by students against the use by the Institute of Distant Study of the University of Paris 8 of the algorithmic exam e-proctoring platform “TestWe”, a case in which La Quadrature was involved. Last week, in a...
15248 people file a complaint against the Technopolice
In September 2019, La Quadrature du Net started an initiative called “Technopolice” to collect information about the progressive outbreak of automated surveillance in France. This action reached a new milestone this Saturday, September 24 as a collective complaint...
Why we should oppose Automated Video Surveillance.
Automated Video Surveillance (AVS) has dug its roots and wired its plugs in France, with support from the central government, other local authorities and the French data protection authority, the CNIL (refer to our article “What is AVS?”). Our opposition is building...
Collective complaint against the Technopolice
Three years ago, La Quadrature du Net started an initiative called « Technopolice » to gather information relating to all technologies deployed by the police in our cities. Today, we have come to a point where the combination of these technologies creates a state of...
Help us rekindle the night, support La Quadrature du Net
Help us rekindle the night, support La Quadrature du Net Surveillance has invaded all the spaces in our lifes. Our connected computers are rife with advertising trackers, our phones are pocket spying devices, street cameras are starting to observe and analyse our...
AI Regulation: The EU should not give in to the surveillance industry lobbies
Although it claims to protect our liberties, the EU’s draft text on artificial intelligence (AI), presented by Margrethe Vestager, actually promotes the accelerated development of all aspects of AI, in particular for security purposes. Loaded with exceptions, resting...
Drones are back, so are we
On 20 July 2021, the government proposed a new security bill which will, among other things, authorize police drones, the same drones that our collective efforts managed to reject four times last year. The government is rushing to undermine our precious victories...
Amazon Fined 746 Million Euros Following Our Collective Legal Action
On July 16 2021, the Luxembourg Data Protection Agency finally rendered its opinion on the collective legal action we and 10 000 more people took in May 2018 against Amazon. This decision breaks a three-year silence which had started to make us expect the worst. The...
In memoriam Philippe Aigrain (1949-2021)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Philippe Aigrain on Sunday 10th of July, in the mountains, near his home in the French Pyrénées. Philippe was a computer scientist and a great humanist, a tireless activist, a researcher and an intellectual who...
Open letter calling for a global ban on biometric recognition technologies that enable mass and discriminatory surveillance
La Quadrature du Net is a signatory of an international open letter, signed by more than 170 worldwide associations and written by EDRi, Access Now, Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), et l’Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do...