No way to police citizens, underlines the inbW! “Citizens should have no fears. The sole purpose of aerial thermography is to have a qualitative tool of general interest, not to monitor people“, insists Laurent Dauge!
The inBW has also responded to citizens who, for example, fear new taxes on energy sieves or a hunt for urban planning offenses, such as an undeclared annex to the urban planning services. “I can’t imagine a municipality taking advantage of this data to hunt down urban planning offenses“, explains Laurent Dauge. “And I remind you that satellites would make it possible for a long time, if that were the case. But frankly, I don’t see a municipality taking the risk of doing that.“.
Furthermore, an authority wishing to levy new taxes would immediately face obvious problems. “How, for example, might it prove that two identical goods do not reveal the same degree of heat loss? One good might be heated when the plane passed by, while the other might temporarily remain unheated if its occupants have gone on vacation?
Finally, the data will be protected once morest hacking attempts. They will be kept by the municipalities for 7 years, no more! What’s more, the data, secure, will not be published on the internet.
