The decree on the use of buzz equipped with cameras by the security forces, in particular for the maintenance of order or border surveillance, was published this Thursday in the Official Gazette, more than a year after the vote on the law that allows these uses.
The text authorizes the use of buzz by the police, gendarmes, customs or military in certain cases for “the prevention of attacks on the safety of people and property in particularly exposed places”, for “the safety of concentrations” on public roads, for example during demonstrations , as well as in “support” of the agents “on the ground” “with a view to enabling them to maintain or restore public order”.
The watchman Cnil
“The prevention of acts of terrorism”, “the regulation of transport flows”, “the surveillance of borders, in order to combat their irregular crossing” and the “rescue of people”, are the other situations in which law enforcement will be able to use these small drones.
The law on criminal responsibility and internal security, which had been adopted in December 2022, had reintroduced several controversial measures from the Global Security law, challenged by the Constitutional Council in 2021. The Cnil, an independent authority that oversees the privacy of French, issued an opinion on the decree in March.
He requests that the doctrines of use be transmitted to him, which do not appear in the decree, and which must specify the “cases of use, the conditions of use and the conduct to be adopted”, in particular with respect to “information” of the interested public by the use of buzz.
The Cnil also requested the encryption of the recordings “directly at the level of the cameras” to “comply with the obligation to guarantee the integrity and security of the recordings until they are deleted.”
Source: BFM TV
