#2023-283Decree No. 2023-283 on Aerial Image Capture for Public Safety
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The Decree No. 2023-283 establishes regulations concerning the use of image capturing devices installed on aircraft for public safety missions in France. It creates specific sections within the Internal Security Code that authorize national police, gendarmerie, customs services, and military personnel to process personal data from aerial cameras for various security purposes, such as preventing threats to public safety, monitoring public gatherings, and assisting in emergency response. It outlines the types of data that can be collected, access rights, retention periods, and public information obligations.
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Key Changes
- Creation of new sections in the Internal Security Code for aerial image processing.
- Authorization for national police and military to use aerial cameras for security operations.
- Detailed regulations on data retention, access, and public notification requirements.
Obligations
What this law requires
National police, gendarmerie, customs services, and military personnel must limit aerial camera data access to individuals who are specifically designated and authorized, with access granted only on a need-to-know basis for their assigned duties.
Personnel must delete images of residential interiors and their entrances within 48 hours of the end of intervention, unless the data is needed for judicial reporting.
All aerial camera data that has not been deleted must be retained for a maximum of 7 days from the end of device deployment, after which it must be erased, except data retained for pedagogical and training purposes.
Data used for pedagogical and training purposes must be anonymized.
It is prohibited to select a particular category of persons in the processing systems based solely on the special categories of personal data captured by aerial cameras.