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Facebook, Navigo passes, biometrics ... Cnil concerned about the "plot" of our daily lives


Biometrics, search engines, social sites, Navigo passes… In presenting to the press the annual report of the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL), including the protection of personal data information is the raison d'etre since 1978 , Its chairman Alex Turk gave a disturbing picture of the "plot" on all fronts which is now regularly submitted the French citizen.

For Alex Turk, "from dawn to suns



e are all more or less subject" to "double tracking". First "a plot in outer space" through the development of biometrics systems, video or geolocation. Then "a plot in time" that allow search engines or social networks.

"The first involves the freedom to come and go," insisted the chairman of the Cnil Friday." The second involves the freedom of thought and expression," he added citing the example of old statements exhumed in search engines that "require you to justify to 50 years what you said at 20 years. "

She recommended the creation of a pass Navigo "anonymous" usable public transport in the Paris and making anonymous data validation passengers, unlike the classic Navigo pass that combines data validation (date, time and place of passage ) The number of subscribers for 48 hours. This map is now but costs five euros.



The Committee has also expressed reservations about the new passport biom é trique and regretted "very strongly" that the government has ignored, said its chairman. They included the creation of a central database and the collection of fingerprints eight fingers while European regulations do not consider only two.

The meeting of 27 European Cnil, chaired this year by Alex Turk, also recommended "a very significant reduction (six months instead of 18 currently, ndlr) the duration of data retention by search engines and other social networks on the net type Facebook - without relying on the controversy Deacon - and Myspace.

Accordingly, Cnil wants "to recognize the constitutional right to privacy" with an inscription in the preamble of the 1958 Constitution, which recalls the fundamental rights.












 

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