Bastien Le Querrec

French public-law jurist and the legal officer anchoring La Quadrature du Net's litigation track against AI-and-automated-decision systems in French public administration. The principal French civil-society legal voice on the CAF and France Travail algorithmic-scoring files and the corpus's clearest French-language register on grassroots-civil-society strategic litigation against welfare-control and unemployment-profiling algorithms.

Le Querrec has been a member of La Quadrature du Net since 2019 and works in its litigation group ("contentieux"). He is currently a staff member of LQDN's operational team ("équipe opérationnelle"), in which the organisation lists him with the title "Juriste"; his own public self-description is "Legal officer at La Quadrature du Net", the form LQDN uses in its English-language publications. He is in parallel a PhD student in public law at Université Grenoble-Alpes, with a doctoral research programme on algorithmic decision-making by public-administration agencies and its impacts on human rights — the same substantive question that organises his LQDN litigation portfolio.

Algorithmic-public-administration litigation

Le Querrec is the lead LQDN legal officer on the corpus's clearest French-language civil-society litigation portfolio against AI-and-automated-decision systems operated by the French state. The Caisse nationale des Allocations Familiales (CNAF) scoring file — the 15-civil-society-organisation challenge to the algorithmic fraud-risk scoring of roughly 13 million French family-benefits households — is the centrepiece: Le Querrec is the LQDN spokesperson on the Conseil d'État filing, the named carrier of the discrimination-and-Article-22 GDPR argument that the algorithm "is the manifestation of a policy of persecution of the poorest people — because you are in an economically vulnerable position, you will be suspect in the eyes of the algorithm, and therefore checked — it's a double punishment". The parallel France Travail file — LQDN's documentation and litigation track on the French unemployment agency's algorithmic profiling of jobseekers — is the second anchor of the portfolio, and Le Querrec's June 2024 LQDN analysis "À France Travail, l'essor du contrôle algorithmique" is the substantive case-build on the "anticipation of disengagement", "rupture risk", and "employability score" systems used to triage and prioritise unemployed-jobseeker support. The litigation portfolio extends across the Caisse nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CNAM) health-insurance system and the French tax administration; together these files constitute the algorithmic-public-administration track that LQDN's broader programme is anchored on.

Posture and public output

Le Querrec's distinctive contribution to the make-AI-good movement is the translation of LQDN's grassroots-organising base — through the Technopolice campaign's municipal documentation of algorithmic surveillance — into French-court strategic litigation against the algorithmic systems that organise state social-control infrastructure. Beyond the public-administration litigation, his 2024 focus areas extend to platform interoperability as a decentralisation lever, encryption rights, and digital-ecology questions. His academic output — including his 2023 article in Après-demain on the failure of centralised social-networks and the case for federated alternatives — anchors the substantive scholarly register that runs alongside the litigation work.