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Paris Olympics 2024: Testing on algorithmic video surveillance of the Games begins
Authorized by a law for the Olympic Games, so-called 'augmented' video surveillance will be tested for the first time at two Depeche Mode concerts in Paris on Sunday, March 3, and Tuesday, March 5.
Nine months after the Olympic Games law was enacted, with its article 10 allowing for experimentation with algorithmic video surveillance, French police officers will be testing this new technology – which is supposed to automatically detect a specific number of abnormal situations – for the first time. The French interior ministry, as reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP), has announced that six cameras powered by software created by the Wintics company, Cityvision, will be scanning the public thoroughfares in the vicinity of the Bercy Arena concert hall in Paris' 12 th arrondissement, where the concerts are set to take place. While automated video surveillance analysis software has never proved its effectiveness until now, companies in the sector have hoped to be able to convince public authorities.
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