According to French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net, the Administrative Court of Marseille has ruled against two French high schools installing facial-recognition technology at their entrances. The court's decision pointed out the technology deployment violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation's provisions on consent, proportionality and data minimization. The ruling fell in line with the opinion of the French data protection authority, the CNIL, which instructed the high schools to suspend their programs in November. (Original article is in French.)
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