At the end of last year and some legal pussyfooting, the law against illegal downloading of multimedia files (dubbed “HADOPI”, see my December 8 post) was finally voted.
Now the French government is busy discussing a new law, dubbed “LOPPSI” (sorry, I couldn’t find a link in English). This is an all-encompassing security law, but it has some dispositions about the Internet that could be very dangerous:
In order to fight pedophiles, the law will allow the police to remotely monitor and control the computers of suspects, and/or stealthily install keyloggers and other spying programs on them (the computers, not the suspects). Fortunately some Representatives have insisted that a judge be involved in the process, but the discussion isn’t over yet. The words “Big Brother” have been used repeatedly.
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