TECHNOLOGY For the first time, the government has called on French citizens to co-write the bill digital. A iniative driven by Axelle Lemaire …
Axelle Lemaire had promised to listen to the French, it did. Although it is regrettable that some of the proposals selected times within the anecdotal, when other very sustained and concrete, were set aside. Three weeks after the end of the consultation online around the digital bill, to which 21,000 Internet users participated, the secretary of state on Friday presented a text “enriched” by the proposals of citizens. With the 8500 contributions, the bill has increased from 30-41 articles, and “nearly 90 contributions were incorporated by the government”, says Axelle Lemaire. But if it has indeed listened to French, she has so far followed their advice? 20 Minutes takes stock.
Citizen ideas added to Text
The most sustained proposal for consultation, Recognition of video game competitions, figure contained in the text. An article has been added to it, in fact referring to a parliamentary mission to be launched in order to “provide a comprehensive framework for developing these activities and their organization.” A good start for the pros of Fifa 16 or Starcraft . As requested by a large majority of Internet users, the transparency obligation on public algorithms has also been integrated into the text. “Once a person will be subject to an individual administrative decision based on algorithmic processing, it will have the right to ask the administration to communicate the rules constituting this algorithm,” says the government. A useful provision, for example, to disgruntled students their assignment via the “post-baccalaureate admission” software.
The right to self-hosting is also appearing in the text. Concretely, so you can use at home a server accessible from the Internet and the ISPs “have the obligation not to hinder or prevent the use of self-hosting and sharing and stored data” . To secure your system, data encryption will also be encouraged, since the CNIL will now have the task of promoting it.
Two governmental provisions were finally amended in accordance with the request of a large number of citizens. First, the provision of research. Very mobilized, the scientific community has obtained half of reducing the length of embargo after which the author published publicly funded is free to provide his written. Progress, although some would have liked more. Concerned netizens have finally agreed on the privacy aspect of the electronic collection of business data by INSEE. In its new version, article and excludes data of natural persons, and a notice of the National Council for Statistical Information (CNIS) is made mandatory.
The citizens rejected ideas government
The mandatory use of open source software by governments, broadly supported (over 6,000 votes), goes out the window. On the merits, the government says support “the development and use of free software.” Their use in the administration and the educational field is also promoted in various codes and circulars drafted in the last three years, he recalls. But he refuses to pass legislation to force the officials to leave Microsoft.
The action group is niet too. The idea was simple: to give consumers the opportunity to collectively pursue in litigation relating to personal data. But the government, if it is “legitimate” demand, “ believes that is too early to make changes to this law which is only a year of existence. ” It refers to the bill for a Justice of the XXI century and the European regulations on personal data to be adopted by year’s end.
Communications Encryption, although promoted by the government, will remain in However an aggravating circumstance in the commission of a crime or offense, to the chagrin of La Quadrature du Net, who hoped to return to this penal provision. The association estimated in effect it has the effect of limiting the promotion, development and use of cryptology. But the government “considered it premature to come back, at this point, the article of the Criminal Code that he proposed to repeal.”
Finally, the CNIL will not be given the power to self-referral, as suggested by the citizens. The government did not want to overwhelm an instance already occupied, he said.
The government ideas retained despite a mixed vote
Two government proposals making subject to very mixed votes were maintained in the bill. This is the case of payment by SMS, praised by associations who want to more easily collect donations, but suspect in the eyes of 48% of voters. Citizens had expressed reservations about the security and confidentiality of payments, as well as on the business model of phone companies that provide payment. But for the government, they have no place to be. Not only “service or the association does not have access to banking or telephone number of the customer,” but also “the operator pays the entire donation to the association.”
Despite the doubts of citizens (42% of votes against or mixed), the use of Social Security Number (NIR) for statistical or research has not been deleted from the project. Some contributors had found the disturbing article for individual freedoms and feared désanonymisation data and reuse them to commercial ends. The Government assures him that the “code” derived from the NIR “ will not have an identifier character for people” and states that “ the Council of State will be the guarantor of sufficiently robust character the operation “.
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