France seeks to broaden its Intelligence Law

French Parliamentarians have endorsed a proposal to extend the Intelligence Law, permitting surveillance measures for detecting "foreign influence," as per Euractiv. Presently, the law utilizes surveillance techniques to oversee activities identified as potential terrorism. The Senate is slated to deliberate on the bill in the coming month. However, privacy specialists have voiced apprehensions that broadening the law might jeopardize privacy and "civil liberties as the surveillance algorithms remain undisclosed and inaccessible for examination.”

Check for more in Euractiv: https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-privacy/news/frances-latest-foreign-interference-bill-questions-democratic-control-over-surveillance-services/

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