The Ministry of Internal Affairs of France presented a draft of new anti-terrorism legislation, which caused criticism from human rights defenders, as some of its provisions violate the Privacy Law. About it reports The Washington Post.
The proposals put forward within the initiative will allow the authorities to systematically track the behavior of people on the Internet and to store the data longer. Human rights defenders state that such measures may violate the decision of the European Court, which last year stated that mass observation programs are illegal.
“The terrorists changed communication methods. We continue to remain blind, tracking telephone lines, which no one else uses,” Teraman’s Minister of Internal Affairs described the situation.
Privacy protection Activists insist that there is no evidence that the proposed law will prevent attacks. They see in the last sentences attempts by the government of Macgron to reflect criticism from the extreme right per year before the presidential election.
In 2017, the anti-terrorist law was adopted in France, according to which it was allowed to limit the freedom of movement of suspected terrorism without a court decision, as well as organize large-scale police checks at train stations and at airports.