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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 June 2026
Debate
Sporting Events Bill [HL]Contribution
Let me look at a number of cities that have won the right to host the Olympic Games and what they did. In Paris, for 2024, it required national legislation, interestingly enough, for AI mass surveillance, which was a controversial security law that created a legal framework to deploy AI-driven video surveillance algorithms. This technology scanned crowds in public spaces to automatically detect suspicious events or security threats. That was a very detailed provision, and I would argue that, if that was the case in your Lordships’ House or, indeed, in Parliament, there would need to be a very considered debate about it for much longer than was possible in an hour’s debate on a statutory instrument.
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