Thursday, April 07, 2011

Google and Facebook help fight France's unethical data law

France, or any government for that matter, has zero right to do this.

Of course, that's not a concern to governments...

Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week.

The legal challenge has been brought by The French Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) and relates to government plans to keep web users' personal data for a year.


Wtf do they want it for?

The law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers.

This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded.

Police, the fraud office, customs, tax and social security bodies will all have the right of access.


All people we can trust...completely...

Any government who asks for this level of access needs to be viewed with deep suspicion.

Read more here.

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