France passes new surveillance law in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack

[jakeXT]

The new law will allow authorities to spy on the digital and mobile phone communications of anyone linked to a “terrorist” inquiry without prior authorisation from a judge. It forces internet service providers and phone companies to give up data upon request.

Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private homes and install so-called keylogger devices that record every key stroke on a targeted computer in real time. The authorities will be able to keep recordings for a month and metadata for five years.

One of the most contentious elements of the bill is that it allows intelligence services to vacuum up metadata, which would then be subject to analysis for potentially suspicious behaviour. The metadata would be anonymous, but intelligence agents could follow up with a request to an independent panel for deeper surveillance that could yield the identity of users.

Another controversial element is the so-called “black boxes” – or complex algorithms – that internet providers will be forced to install to flag up a succession of suspect behavioural patterns online, such as keywords used, sites visited and contacts made

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/france-passes-new-surveillance-law-in-wake-of-charlie-hebdo-attack

[KoKo]

1. Hollande Govt. is looking very strange these days on Human Rights Issues "for the PEOPLE."

He's even ramping up French Arms Sales to "other countries," --except Russia these days.

I hope he's not thinking of following Tony Blair's current endeavors of gathering funds, for HIMSELF, (when he leaves office) based on his current negotiations that have helped Arms Sales by Negotiating in "back room deals" with Foreign Entities that might not be so Favorable to World Peace.

But, then ...anything is possible these days with Former & Elected Officials Profiting off "Endless Wars."

[jakeXT]

2. His memoir mentioned arming the rebels

AFP, Paris
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
French President Francois Hollande admitted to delivering weapons to Syrian rebels in 2012 despite an embargo, according to a new book coming out in France this month.

“We began when we were certain they would end up in the right hands. For the lethal weapons it was our services who delivered them,” Hollande told author Xavier Panon in an interview in May last year.

The book by the journalist specializing in diplomatic and military issues, is entitled “In the corridors of French diplomacy.”

Panon wrote that France delivered canons, machine guns, rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles to the rebels fighting Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in an uprising that has turned into all-out civil war and drawn in thousands of foreign jihadists.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/05/06/France-delivered-weapons-to-Syria-rebels-book-reveals.html