Gérald Darmanin wants to remove doubts about the way in which law enforcement uses video surveillance. The minister therefore announced on Monday that he had requested an administrative investigation into the use of facial recognition by the Interior Ministry’s services.
The Minister of the Interior reacted to the publication of information from the investigative site Disclosed according to which the police use video surveillance software published by BriefCam, one of whose functions allows facial recognition.
Software used “under the authority of a magistrate”
“We use BriefCam like other software, but under the authority of a magistrate,” he explained on France 5. “But,” he added, “no, to my knowledge, we do not “Let’s not use facial recognition.”
Stressing that the General Directorate of the National Police had recalled in February the ban on the use of facial recognition, Gérald Darmanin announced that he had “requested an administrative investigation within three months”, so, he said, that it “There is no doubt.”
The CNIL, an independent authority that guards the private lives of the French, for its part announced last Wednesday the launch of a “control procedure” targeting the Ministry of the Interior after the publication of the investigation Disclosed.