The French Ministry of Sport has banned facial recognition technology from the Olympic 2024 and Paralympic Games
Due to French privacy laws, biometric facial scans, which were widely used as a security tool at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, will not be allowed for the Summer Olympics 2024 and Paralympics in Paris. Olympic fans can buy Olympic Golf Tickets from our website. After riot police in May used tear gas and pepper spray to suppress Liverpool soccer fans at Stade de France over a bogus ticket fraud, Parisian politicians advocated for Olympic facial recognition tech. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, France's minister of sport, stated to Le Parisienne that the use of facial scan technology is "completely and clearly" prohibited by a bill outlining the Olympics' security strategy. According to Oudéa-Castéra, these devices are not now covered by the security-related legislative regulations, according to Le Parisienne. Instead, Oudéa-Castéra promoted substitute artificial intelligence-based security measures for the 2024 Olympics, such as "anonymized algorithms to