France Pushes for Tighter Online Surveillance Wall Street Journal (01/14/15) Schechner, Sam; Gross, Jenny In response to the recent Charlie Hebdo attack, France wants to boost domestic surveillance to track terror threats by seeking greater assistance from technology companies. The French government will propose a new surveillance law aimed at giving intelligence services all the legal means to accomplish their mission, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday. France’s moves to tighten surveillance since the Paris attacks add to pressure on U.S. tech firms in Europe to do more to help authorities combat terrorism. Particularly in the U.K. and France, security and intelligence officials have expressed frustration at what they say is some firms’ reluctance to comply with orders requesting information about users and their communications. In recent months, European Union officials and national governments have met with companies including Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to discuss the topic. Technology companies, keen to assure users that they safeguard their privacy, have pushed back on some requests to turn over user data. They also cite conflicts with U.S. laws that they say prohibit them from sharing data. This has been a point of tension with EU governments, one U.S. tech executive said.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:10:04 +0000
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