On the occasion of the opening of the Nice Carnival, the mayor of the city, Christian Estrosi, expressed on Saturday on Europe 1, his anger against the National Commission for Data Protection (CNIL). This authority, responsible for ensuring that information technology does not infringe on individual freedoms, refused to authorize the application of facial recognition by camera, tested last year during the event. "I can only regret it, at a time when our country is facing a certain number of threats", gets annoyed Christian Estrosi, whose city was marked, on July 14, 2016, by a terrorist attack on the truck-ram which caused the death of 86 people.
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"Raise bayonet rifles to ensure the safety of the French"
"We will not win the war of the 21st century with the weapons of the previous century", quips the mayor of Nice who, referring to a report however made on this technology with the Ministries of the Interior and National Defense, regrets that the CNIL "continues to consider that bayonet rifles should be brought out to ensure the safety of the French."
Facial recognition by camera was the subject of an experiment last year for which 2,000 people had volunteered. The system allows the public to pass checks more quickly, a device which would have greatly facilitated the entry of visitors to the third largest carnival in the world, after that of Rio and Venice.