{
  "record": {
    "id": "0a2aae75-6f80-4e5a-a74a-52f4cc9af8d6",
    "code": "PAI-0A2AAE75",
    "force": "Police nationale",
    "country": "France",
    "country_code": "fr",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "",
    "technology": "Algorithmic video surveillance (VSA / vidéosurveillance algorithmique)",
    "technology_slug": "france-vsa",
    "vendor": "Multiple contractors",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "ngo",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2023",
    "legal_basis": "Extended to 31 December 2030 by Article 19 of the loi Ripost, definitively adopted by Parliament on 21 July 2026, for the sole purpose of preventing terrorism and serious threats to personal safety. Biometric identification remains excluded. Real-time facial recognition itself remains prohibited in French public space.",
    "oversight": "Conseil constitutionnel; CNIL (data protection authority)",
    "notes": "One of two records (Police nationale and Gendarmerie nationale) for French use of algorithmic video surveillance; the account below covers both forces.\n\nPiloted at the Paris 2024 Olympics for crowd management and threat detection, flagging anomalies for a trained human operator rather than acting automatically. The legislative history is unusually tangled and worth recording precisely, because the experiment has now been extended twice after being struck down once.\n\nThe original Olympic-law authorisation was due to expire 31 March 2025. A first extension attempt, attached to transport safety legislation, was censured by the Conseil constitutionnel on 24 April 2025. The experiment was then extended to 31 December 2027 by the JOP 2030 law, upheld by the Conseil constitutionnel in March 2026, with an evaluation report due 30 September 2027. The loi Ripost, definitively adopted 21 July 2026, extended it again to 31 December 2030 and widened its scope from public roads and event perimeters to the interior of buildings open to the public, subject to Interior Ministry authorisation.\n\nRipost also opens a separate and distinct experiment, running to 31 December 2027, permitting algorithmic analysis of surveillance footage in retail premises, supermarkets and shopping centres for the sole purpose of preventing theft. That is framed with its own safeguards: no biometric identification or facial recognition, mandatory human review, a CNIL impact assessment, a register of actions taken on alerts, and a published conformity attestation.\n\nWorth noting against the direction of travel: the official evaluation committee found the Olympic pilot's technical performance uneven and its operational value limited. The extensions have proceeded regardless.",
    "source": "French government legislation; Conseil constitutionnel rulings; Amnesty International France and Statewatch reporting",
    "source_url": "https://www.amnesty.fr/actualites/voici-comment-le-gouvernement-a-prolonge-la-videosurveillance-algorithmique/",
    "last_checked": "2026-10-31",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/0a2aae75-6f80-4e5a-a74a-52f4cc9af8d6"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}