France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the extensive provisions for electronic snooping in the Military Programming Law that was passed by the French Senate on 10 December after previously being approved by the National Assembly. A proposed amendment would have suppressed article 13 allowing government agencies to obtain personal data and spy on phone and Internet communications in real time. But the amendment was not adopted and article has been retained in the final version of the law, (...)

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