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French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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> Les traitements automatisés repèrent des comportements suspects, non pas des personnes pré-identifiées

It's actually worse. Listening to all communications in the hope of catching something suspect is the exact thing that make this law extremely dangerous.

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn't care to show up. This is beyond WTF.

I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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post #3

French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn't care to show up. This is beyond WTF. I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.

How the fuck does 25/577 make quorum? Do they not have this concept?

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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La Quadrature du Net (French EFF equivalent) posted a campaign website with a rundown of which députés (congresspeople) are in favor or against the bill: https://sous-surveillance.fr

Also had VOIP phone to contact députés. Many were and avoided questions or said they would toe the party line. Evidence here: https://pad.lqdn.fr/p/PJLdeputes

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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post #2

> Les traitements automatisés repèrent des comportements suspects, non pas des personnes pré-identifiées It's actually worse. Listening to all communications in the hope of catching something suspect is the exact thing that make this law extremely dangerous.

Yep, it's called anomaly hunting: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/anomaly-hunting...

It's very bad.

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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post #3

French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn't care to show up. This is beyond WTF. I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.

I believe this still has to be approved by the Senate, right?

I'd expect that law to be distorted into a weird red tape system with virtually no power, but that will still get passed just so the politicians can say they have passed some law.

> In response, the government proposed a few hours before the vote a new amendment supposed to appease the hosting providers. If adopted, it lets them to define the separation between "metadata and content."

I'd expect most providers would say that they don't have any metadata, and that they would designate /dev/null as their black box.

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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post #3

French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn't care to show up. This is beyond WTF. I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.

They announced that they are going to relocate, indeed: https://eu.ovh.com/fr/news/articles/a1743.le-gouvernement-ve...

And launched a big initiative to federate tech actors against the bill: http://ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr/

######## Breaking ########

Octave Klaba finally declares that the bill doesn't compromise the trust chain. https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/588666965755092993

Re: French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

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It just took ONE small-scale false flag operation "Charlie Hebdo" for the French people to give up their rights and for their predatory security apparatus to jump and devour them.

> the French people

by French people you mean a few representatives?

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