A wide variety of government officials could gain access
to live data concerning users of ISPs and online services including
content-hosting sites, without the approval of a judge, under a draft
law approved by members of the French National Assembly on Friday.
The measure, a rider on the 2014-2019 defense appropriation bill,
would require ISPs and content hosting companies to provide government
officials with access to details of their users' activity without
judicial oversight. Law enforcement officials can already ask a judge
for an order to access such data.
If the bill becomes law, it
will no longer be necessary to go via the courts to obtain such access,
and the number of government officials who could access the data would
be much broader, potentially including those responsible for collecting
taxes.
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