Many provisions are made “on an experimental basis” implying that not all of them are rolled out nationwide in order to keep a control group for comparison.
[7][6] The use of mobile cameras was allowed since 2016, but previously access to recordings required a warranted reason, such as investigating an incident.
The latter, the APN, claims the safety of law enforcement members was closely related to France's security and demands even more extensive measures.
In order to coordinate efforts, on 8 November 2020, many organizations united in the collective Stop Loi Sécurité Globale.
[16] Amnesty International,[9] CNCDH,[17] Quadrature du net,[8] and the UNHCR[15][10] see civil liberties under attack.
[20][15][10][7][19] Although not mentioned in the bill,[5] the Federation of Labor Unions cgt,[21] Amnesty International,[9] and LQDN,[8] among others, criticize that “processing” of imagery could entail facial recognition, thus putting citizens under general suspicion.
[1] On 20 October 2020, examination of the text began in an accelerated procedure which requires only one lecture by the parliament and subsequent approval by the senate.
The national consultative commission on human rights of France sees the repeated use of accelerated procedure as a decline of democratic debate.
[24] France's upper house, The Senate, unanimously approved the amended bill on 18 March 2021,[3] the Day of Political Prisoners.