A Police drone flies over Marseille's Capucins market. The ban is a victory for privacy activists who’ve been pushing back against the use of new technology to monitor the behaviour of citizens and employees since the start of the pandemic. — AFP
France’s top privacy watchdog has told police to stop using drone-mounted cameras to enforce virus lockdowns, monitor protests, stake out drug deals and chase carjackers.
The regulator CNIL looked at how law enforcement was using the drones to check if people were obeying lockdown rules and tested how it collected data including people’s identities.
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