Public transport: cameras will be able to monitor the port of the mask

For a year, the cameras installed in public transport can be used to measure the rate of port of the mask in trains, metros, buses or even stations.

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The surveillance cameras will now be able to monitor that you are well carrying your mask in the metro, the train or the bus, according to a decree published Thursday March 11 in the Official Journal.

When wearing the mask is imposed in "vehicles or spaces accessible to the public and assigned to public transport of travelers", such as stations, "operators of public public transport services of travelers as well as managers of spaces assigned to theseservices ", such as RATP or SNCF, will be able to use" intelligent "surveillance cameras to detect the mask wearing.

This video surveillance, authorized for a year, aims to make it possible to establish "statistical assessments" on wearing the mask and to adapt, if necessary, the information and awareness actions of the public.

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The collected images will be anonymized

Data collection is supervised.The images can only be collected every 20 minutes and every 100 people and "exclusively by fixed cameras located in vehicles or spaces accessible to the public assigned to public traveler transport".The images should not be subject "neither storage nor transmission to third parties".They must, moreover, be "instantly transformed into anonymous data in order to establish the percentage of people paying the obligation to carry a protective mask".

Finally, the decree specifies that the exploitation of data "relates only to the number of people detected and the percentage of these people who wear a mask".No data likely to identify the filmed persons should be harvested.

A first experiment interrupted in June

Last May, smart cameras were deployed in three Cannes markets and in the Châtelet-les-Halles metro station in Paris to measure the port of the mask.Scheduled for a period of three months, the experiment had been interrupted one month after following an unfavorable opinion from the National Commission for Data Protection (CNIL).The gendarme for the protection of personal data had declared that the development of these devices presented "lerisque to generalize a feeling of surveillance in citizens, to create a phenomenon of addiction and trivialization of intrusive technologies, and to generate increased monitoring, likely to harm the proper functioning of our democratic society ”.

It indicated that "if sensitive data is processed, such as the capture of personal health information or biometric information, or if the right of opposition is not possible (because, for example, of" video sweeping»From the camera in a street), it is necessary to set up a suitable legal framework which respects article 9 and/or article 23 of the GDPR".What the government has just done with the publication of the decree.

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