Algorithms and the #coronavirus pandemic | Financial Times
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... algorithmic #surveillance remains widespread in #France. Most concerning to activists is the Traitement des Antécédents Judiciaires, a criminal database of 8m faces which the police can use for facial recognition. “The file is about everyone who has been in an investigation,” says Mr Drago, including those acquitted as well as convicted of crimes. “It’s pretty bleak [that] millions of people can be subject to FRT.”