2024-04-03 16:19:24
Never short of pretexts to expand its arsenal of repression and mass surveillance, the government used that of the 2024 Olympic Games to adopt a law allowing the experimentation of algorithmic video surveillance (VSA) on a very large scale. VSA consists of adding algorithms to video surveillance images to analyze and classify people and their behavior. In addition to following and tracking people as they travel around the city, behaviors classified as “abnormalities” by this software trigger an alert to the police. This experiment legitimizes practices that were previously completely illegal, but have nevertheless been deployed for several years in our cities and villages, particularly in Marseille, where surveillance algorithms have been used since 2018.
The Technopolice Marseille collective and the anti-JO coordination denounce the VSA experiments which are the foot in the door of a dangerous social project, and offer an followingnoon of debates and artistic performance to better understand this technology and its deployment and the struggles that are organized.
Appointment on Sunday April 21 at the DAR Self-managed Social Center127 rue d’Aubagne in Marseille from 2:30 p.m., for an followingnoon of conference – debate followed by a screening – performance in the company of the Technopolice collective of Marseille, members of La Quadrature du Net, director Léo Richard and those and those who fight once morest the 2024 Olympics, the 2030 Olympics and the technopolice devices such as algorithmic video surveillance (VSA) that these games normalize.
Programme :
2:30 p.m. – Welcome
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Round table and debate on the VSA and the 2024 and 2030 Olympics: Well before the 2024 Olympics, the VSA was already deployed everywhere on our territory completely illegally. The new legal framework for the Olympic Games is an opportunity to impose it, to make it “acceptable”, and to trivialize it. An overview of this technology and the different forms it takes in our territories, in order to fight better, more than ever.
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Break and info kiosk
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – Screening of Chairs Missing and performance by Léo Richard
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. – Informal discussions
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