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Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens' Fundamental Rights * TorrentFreak – https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-program-accused-of-violating-citizens-fundamental-rights-230519/

Since 2010, France has monitored and stored data on millions of internet users as part of anti-piracy scheme featuring warning letters, fines, and ISP disconnections. Europe's highest court will soon decide whether the program is permissible under EU law. Digital rights groups insist that as a general surveillance and data retention scheme, it violates fundamental rights.

#France #EU #Surveillance #Hadopi #p2p #DigitalRights
#HumanRights

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Pandora's Box : Reflecting on 20 years of drone targeted killing
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=YgeL1RWW8Gw

On 3rd November 2002, a US #Predator drone launched two missiles at a vehicle travelling through the desert in Marib province, #Yemen. The drone’s target was al-Qaeda leader Qa’id Salim Sinan al-Harithi and this was the first of what has proved to be two decades of US drone targeted assassinations ‘beyond the battlefield’. An untold number of such operations have taken place across the globe since, with a significant number of such strikes causing serious civilian casualties. Despite public controversy and grave legal and ethical objections, the practise has spread among other drone operators including the UK, #France and Turkey.

#Drone #Wars invited a number of experts to mark 20 years of drone targeted killings, to offer some reflections on the human, legal and political cost of the practice and to discuss how we can ensure that drone operators abide by international law in this area

#DroneWarsUK

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Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case – La Quadrature du Net –

Mixing fantasies, bad faith and technical incompetence, a police story has been constructed around the (good) digital practices of the accused, with the aim of staging a “clandestine group”, “conspirative”, “conspiratist” and therefore… terrorist

We are facing the fantasy of a State demanding total transparency from everyone at the risk of being called a “suspect”, a State whose desire for widespread surveillance seems limitless. In this context, we reaffirm our rights to privacy, intimacy and the protection of our personal data. Encryption is, and will remain, an essential element of our civil liberties in the digital age.

#lqdn #France #encryption #surveillance

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France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet –Mozzila Blog

"In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

#censorship
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance

Open Policy & Advocacy

France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet

Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.

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