Following a rejection by the Council of State last June, the National Assembly voted on February 17, 2026 to authorise algorithmic surveillance in retail stores. As the text is due to pass to the Senate following the municipal elections, mind Retail questioned Thibault David, Co-Founder of Veesion.
On February 16, 2026, the French National Assembly adopted (60 votes to 13) a legal framework authorising the use of video surveillance in stores until 2027, in order to combat theft. This move was awaited by the CNIL, i.e. France’s personal data protection body for a while. This follows the State Council’s rejection regarding customer data capture across a whole customer journey in a store. A strict experimental framework is planned until the end of 2027, limiting the use of algorithms to the
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Sophie Baqué
Chief Editor of mind Retail