French high court rules against biometric facial recognition use in high schools
A lawsuit seeking to block biometric facial recognition technology pilots in two high schools in French cities of Nice and…
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French football club experiments with facial biometrics for stadium access control
The football club FC Metz has allegedly rolled out a biometric facial recognition pilot for major events at its stadium…
France looks to establish legal framework to deploy biometric video surveillance
French officials are looking into a legal framework to deploy public video surveillance embedded with facial recognition technology, writes RFI….
French Secretary of State for Digital hesitant about national digital ID program
The French Interior Ministry announced in October plans to deploy facial recognition for enrollment into its national digital identification program…
French regulator clarifies facial recognition position
France’s National Commission on Computing and Liberties (CNIL) has issued new guidance on the appropriate use of biometric facial recognition…
Paris 2024 Olympics to use id3 facial recognition for biometric event security
Biometric access control technology from EASIMob, a project led by id3 Technologies in partnership with Advanced Track & Trace (ATT),…
Air France and Paris airports to run biometric boarding pilot
Air France and Aéroports de Paris (ADP) have agreed to roll out a biometric boarding pilot early next year that…
French privacy regulator finds facial recognition gates in schools illegal
The intention to use facial recognition integrated in biometric gates at two high schools in France was heavily criticized and…
France to use face biometrics for enrollment into national digital ID program
The French Interior Ministry will deploy facial recognition for enrollment into its national digital identification program dubbed Alicem, making France…
Regulation and safeguards for facial recognition pondered in France, China, and Jamaica
The local government of Nice, France has been trialling biometric facial recognition software after deploying more than 2,600 CCTV cameras,…
