The municipal opposition representative announced in a statement: “Today, I contacted the president of the CNIL by mail to seek his opinion on the city of Nice’s desire to use software developed by the Metz-based start-up TWO-I (for two eyes), intended to detect the mood of passengers in the tramway.”
And he explains his initiative as follows: “In Nice, it is the tramway cameras, connected to the Urban Supervision Center (CSU), that would allow, via this software, to analyze passengers’ emotions in real time. TWO-I’s video analysis software, capable of ‘reading’ more than 10,000 faces per second, would process the emotions they emit and determine, among other things, anxious, nervous, and angry faces that would ‘reveal’ ‘potentially dangerous’ individuals.”
Justifying it: “We could target any tramway traveler who, in a few seconds, would go from being a ‘user’ of public transport concerned with a personal issue to a ‘suspect’ potentially warranting intervention by security forces.”
