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In a ruling Thursday, July 23, the Constitutional Council validated the bulk of the device contained in the Law on Intelligence, passed by Parliament on June 24, including the granting intelligence services the power to install “black boxes” among Internet service providers and monitor all traffic to “detect a terrorist threat on the basis of automated processing.” The Council considered that “given the important precautions taken to regulate the use of this technique” , the Article is consistent with the Constitution
This measure, seen as a “trawling.” – a broad patch metadata for all communications, origin or recipient of a message, an IP address website visited, duration of the call or connection in search of a few individuals – had been strongly criticized by the National Commission on Informatics and Liberties, the National Council of digital and more than 900 players in this sector have signed the call “Neither pigeons nor spies.”
Powers “overly broad”
A few hours before the announcement of the Council decision, the Advisory Committee of the Council of Human Rights, one of the bodies of UN based in Geneva, had himself declared “concerned with the powers to intelligence services for digital surveillance inside and outside the France “. In its report, released Thursday, July 23, he criticizes in particular the future law on the …
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