Service: Datakalab - Covid-19 Mask wearing detection In some French cities

Responsible organisation: Public transport (Central-Government)

France has authorised the use of surveillance cameras to monitor whether passengers on public transport are abiding by the requirement to wear masks. However, France’s data protection watchdog CNIL called out the practice, saying it was not governed by any legal framework and was therefore illegal. The authority began a three-month test of its software from French tech company Datakalab this week at the Chatelet-Les-Halles station in the heart of Paris, normally used by about 33 million passengers per year. Monitors will have access to a dashboard with the proportion of riders believed to be wearing masks. The plan was mask wearing mandatory in public transport from May 2019. The AI was regarded to be able to supplement enforcement agents in stations. Still, CNIL, the government body in charge of privacy, raised concerns that this type of technology carries a risk that the identity of the people being analyzed could be reconstructed.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://www.bfmtv.com/tech/trop-intrusives-les-cameras-de-detection-de-masques-desactivees-a-paris-et-a-cannes_AN-202006220163.html
Start/end date 2020 -
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