What Next TBD: The Panopticon Olympics

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How France changed its own laws to have the safest, most pervasively surveilled Olympics ever—and why some are worried the new security system will stay in place long after the games end. Guests: Anne Toomey McKenna, professor, author, and expert in electronic surveillance. Henry Grabar, covering the Olympics in Paris for Slate. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.1	Henry Grabar is Slate's man in Paris right now.
1:10.4	And when I called him up on Friday afternoon, he was watching a crowd of people waiting
1:15.0	to get into the Olympic opening ceremony.
1:18.3	I'm inside the red zone security perimeter, which has been in place for a week in Paris.
1:24.7	And what that means is that pretty much any place that's within about
1:27.6	a half mile of the Sen has been closed to cars unless those cars have a special QR code
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