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Apparently you seemed to have missed it, but France passed a similar law one week ago, adding to it the ability to forbid residents from leaving the territory.
by wazoox 12y ago
Apparently you seemed to have missed it, but France passed a similar law one week ago, adding to it the ability to forbid residents from leaving the territory. This is the general trend toward final abandonment of democracy. Dark times to come.
- scribu 12y agoCould you provide a link? The only recent thing I could find was http://www.france24.com/en/20140925-france-heightened-security-terrorism-threat/ http://www.france24.com/en/20140925-france-heightened-securi...
- mercurial 12y agoIt's not final yet, it still needs to go through the Senate. More details here [1]. It's different from the Australian law, as it's more focused on administrative (as opposed to judicial) censorship rather than spying. It's obviously bad too. Sadly, the judicial arsenal for no-oversight spying on telecommunication is in place since 2013 [2], as part of the Military Programming Law. Not that the DGSE would wait for a law to do something like this anyway [3]. 1: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/france-adopts-anti-terror-law-eroding-civil-liberties http://www.laquadrature.net/en/france-adopts-anti-terror-law... 2: http://en.rsf.org/alarm-over-massive-spying-12-12-2013,45606.html http://en.rsf.org/alarm-over-massive-spying-12-12-2013,45606... 3: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/orange-gives-all-of-its-data-to-frances-nsa/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/orange-gives-all-of-its-dat...