2024-04-03 06:01:18
In Best, the national police quietly and illegally use Briefcam algorithmic video surveillance software. Impunity is such that they no longer even hide.
While the State has hired a standoff with the town hall to force the installation of video surveillance in the city, here we learn via Le Parisien that the feeds from the 15 cameras deployed are routed to national police stations and cross-referenced with an algorithmic video surveillance system provided by the Israeli company Briefcam.
As a reminder, in November 2023, the media Disclose revealed the illegal use of Briefcam by the national police in different departments, which then led the CNIL to get to grips with the subject. However, Brest and the department of Finistère were not covered by these revelations.
If the services of the Ministry of the Interior have done everything to conceal the use of this technology, the sub-prefecture of Brest quietly assumes the use of Briefcam in the press: “Our technical teams made this choice to cover specific needs and save time,” candidly justifies sub-prefect Jean-Philippe Setbon, who assumes he uses it to identify and track individuals by launching requests in video rushes.
This nonchalant communication is all the more surprising since, as we recalled on the occasion of the Disclose revelations, the use of a system like Briefcam outside the restricted framework defined by the 2023 Olympic Games law is completely illegal.
In passing, we note that Jean-Philippe Setbon is also the sub-prefect responsible for cutting subsidies to Breton associations, in the name of the republican engagement contract. As’explain with alternative media Splann! :
“At the beginning of 2024, the sub-prefect of Brest, Jean-Philippe Setbon, learned from Canal Ti Zef that the State was refusing him a subsidy for critical image education action due to “non-compliance with the engagement contract Republican.” Without further explanation. Three other Brest associations, Radio U, the Secular Patronage Guérin and Ekoumène, are in a similar situation and have the common point of having supported or given voice to the collective No future without Avenir, named following a cultural squat demolished by order of the authorities in July 2023.”
A concern for legality with variable geometry, therefore…
For the moment, it seems in any case that the camera installed on an anti-vandalism mast in the popular and militant district of Saint-Martin has been disable monitoring…
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