From the title, I expected the law to be about forbidding companies to keep too much data about their users. (which would explain Google's and Facebook's uproar

From the title, I expected the law to be about forbidding companies to keep too much data about their users. (which would explain Google's and Facebook's uproar) Consumer rights, or so I thought, tend to be pretty good in France in that regard. So, I'm pretty surprised to see the French government calling for more tracking of user data. I'm pretty shocked that this could go through. Full names, addresses and phone numbers is bad but is somewhat available information. Keeping passwords (and I imagine plain text, otherwise I don't see the point) is pretty indefensible. I imagine that if one were to refuse to give out their password to their computer, the police could just request the passwords from a bunch of sites and try? (good incentive to use unique passwords...) Fucked up.