Summer Olympic 2024 and Paralympic Games will not use facial recognition technology
Biometric facial scans, a popular security measure at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, will not be permitted for the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris in 2024 due to French privacy laws according to the French Ministry of Sport. Olympic fans can buy Paris 2024 Tickets from our website. Parisian politicians pushed for Olympic facial recognition technology after riot police in May used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse Liverpool soccer fans at Stade de France due to fake ticket fraud. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, France's minister of sport, told Le Parisien that a bill outlining the Olympics' security plan "completely and clearly" forbids the use of facial scan technology. These devices are currently not covered by security-related legislative regulations, according to Oudéa-Castéra, according to Le Parisienne. In Olympics 2024 Oudéa-Castéra promoted anonymized algorithms to regulate crowd movements in transport As an alternative, Oudéa-Castéra pr...