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France: the new law on the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games threatens human rights

France proposed a new law on the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (projet de loi relatif aux jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024) which would legitimize the use of invasive algorithm-driven video surveillance under the pretext of “securing big events”. This new French law would create a legal basis for scanning public spaces to detect specific suspicious events.

March 6, 2023

A joint statement on Digital Services Act implementation at the national level

January 31, 2023

Civil society observers call for an effective Council of Europe Convention on AI

December 6, 2022

Joint statement: The EU AI Act must protect people on the move

December 6, 2022

How the German government decided not to protect people against the risks of AI

November 29, 2022

Open Letter: EU must protect fundamental freedoms for online political speech

November 8, 2022

Open letter: the German government should stand up for a strong ban on biometric surveillance in the Council of EU negotiations regarding the AI Act  

October 18, 2022

Civil society responds to the Council of Europe Treaty on AI

October 17, 2022

Civil society open letter demands to ensure fundamental rights protections in the Council position on the AI Act

October 17, 2022

EU rules for AI have some distance to go

September 29, 2022

Our statement on the draft AI Act to the German government and public

July 21, 2022

Our response to the EDPB’s guidelines on facial recognition in law enforcement

June 28, 2022

Open Letter: Big Tech won’t respect the new Digital Markets Act unless it can be enforced

June 9, 2022

Submission to the UN report on the right to privacy in the digital age

May 10, 2022

Members of the European Parliament could protect us from biometric surveillance – if they wanted to

May 4, 2022

Civil society reacts to EP AI Act draft Report

May 2, 2022

A Milestone in the AI Act negotiations

April 25, 2022

The Digital Services Act: EU sets a new standard for platform accountability

April 11, 2022

AlgorithmWatch’s demands for improving the AI Act

April 4, 2022

Joint Statement ahead of negotiations on legal framework on AI in the Council of Europe

March 30, 2022

DSA trilogues in the endgame: Policymakers must prioritize platform transparency

March 24, 2022

Algorithmic Discrimination – How to adjust German anti-discrimination law

March 22, 2022

Joint Civil Society Briefing for the Digital Services Act Trilogues

March 1, 2022

AlgorithmWatch signs statement on ban of predictive policing in the Artificial Intelligence Act

February 28, 2022

Human rights and activities of tech companies: Governments must act

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