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w# Technopolice: calling out so-called "safe cities"
## Decentralising the fight against automated surveillance in cities.
### Abstract
In many French cities (and beyond), mayors are pushing towards "safe Smart Cities", pushing for technology everywhere.
Microphones, video-surveillance, automated drones, facial
recognition, machine learning is the recipe of their fantasised secure city.
This talk will introduce Technopolice, the new campaign from La Quadrature du
Net, its goals, its tools, and the way we will make it happen.
(the new? a new? La Quadrature du Net's new campaign to fight back and what, how
### Longer description
All over the French territory, the “Smart City” is slowly revealing its true
colours: a complete and constant surveillance of the urban area for police
purposes, featuring (based on?) partnerships between industrial companies such as Thalès
or Engie and the cities themselves.
Multiple cities are experimenting "smart" videosurveillance based on automated
treatment of videos, in order to make face recognition or detecting behaviours deemed to be
abnormal. Another city is teaming up with a start-up to deploy microphones and
drones in the city. The idea is to detect so-called abnormal sounds to alert the
police, which can then use video-surveillance to check if a patrol is needed or
not. The city of Nice wants to have its own custom citizen reporting
application. Marseille wants to use AI and Big Data to predict behaviours
and to help in decision making.
This is what they want our future to be: a huge automated surveillance system,
with behaviour analysis, emotion recognition, pre-emption of threats,
automation of the police, repression of any unwanted behaviour.
// pre-emption est utilisé pour dire quoi ici ? Pas compris son sens. - pré-emptive ^^ // qui agit avant les faits
This comes at a huge cost: instead of the <i> polis </i>, which means
Democratic City, a place to stroll around, to meet and gather, we will have a
dehumanised, unwanted place, a place to experiment the most advanced forms of
social control: there is no such as surveilling just "to look", our behaviours are modified just by knowing we are being surveilled.
Not to mention the financial and experimental cost of such an architecture.
In this talk, I will detail the "Technopolice" campaign, its importance for
every single human being willing to protect their freedom of movement and right to
exist without being constantly subjected to surveillance. I'll explain the importance
of decentralising such a campaign, and how we will try to federate the data and the organisations around this project.
Nitpick : ya du mix UK/US : fantasize avec un 'z' est US, colour avec un 'u' est UK, dehumanise (UK avec un 's'), organisation
--> Indeed, j'en ai laissé passer en US :/ (je prend que l'US moi, mais jusqu'ici lqdn a plutôt utilisé l'UK dans ses trads :p) --> J'aime pas l'anglais US ^^ Je resterais toujours choqué par des truc comme "defence" par exemple perso /o\
// mention how there is no such thing as surveilling just "to look" but always includes a will to modify behaviours and control?
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The shifting Internet landscape: 10 years of La Quadrature
The past 10 years have seen the intersection of fundamental rights and the Internet (and technology in general) change dramatically. In those 10 years, how has La Quadrature du Net, a French organisation defending freedoms in this digital world, fought, changed, failed, tried, evolved?
In this talk we will go for a walk through our recent history and detail some of the great battles of the past decade, and how the organisation tried to keep up with the changing landscape. We will share what has worked well, what hasn't and the lessons we've tried to learn from these failures, the importance of working with other organisations and the difficulties of transforming to (moving towards) a horizontal, more decentralised structure.
We hope to provide positive and useful points for a common conversation that can extend to our Tea House and beyond, and to the years ahead.