France set to okay spy bill amid protests
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Four months after jihadist attacks in Paris killed 17 people, French MPs are set to approve a controversial bill giving spies sweeping new surveillance powers deemed 鈥渉eavily intrusive鈥 by critics.
The draft law, which is expected to sail through a vote in the lower house National Assembly tomorrow, has sparked angry protests from rights groups, who claim it infringes on privacy.
They will be protesting near parliament today under the banner 鈥24 hours before 1984鈥 in reference to George Orwell鈥檚 dystopian novel about life under an all-knowing dictatorship.
The text enjoys support from both main parties and is almost certain to be adopted when lawmakers vote tomorrow, despite opposition from the far-left and greens.
The new law will allow authorities to spy on the digital and mobile communications of anyone linked to a 鈥渢errorist鈥 enquiry without prior authorization from a judge, and forces Internet service providers and phone firms to give up data upon request.
Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private dwellings and install 鈥渒eylogger鈥 devices that record every key stroke on a targeted computer in real time. The authorities will be able to keep recordings for a month, and metadata for five years.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has fiercely defended the bill, saying that to compare it to the mass surveillance 鈥淧atriot Act鈥 introduced in the United States after the 9/11 attacks was a 鈥渓ie.鈥
The January 7-9 attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, a policewoman and a Jewish supermarket sent shockwaves around the world, and prompted several reforms in France, including the controversial bill.
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