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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