Surveillance State of Play in France

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:18:30 +0000

I wrote a short chapter on digital surveillance for a collective work entitled Le Nouveau Monde, which has just been published by Amsterdam Editions. Over 1,000 pages and nearly 100 authors paint a “picture of neoliberal France”.

For my part, I have attempted in a few pages to describe the expansion of digital surveillance in recent years, its promoters, its methods, and its effects, while trying to place it within the longer history of information technology.

In France, Intelligence Agencies Remain Without Sufficient Checks & Balances

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 07:17:48 +0000

Article first published in French on [The Conversation FR]((https://theconversation.com/en-france-des-services-de-renseignement-sans-vrais-contre-pouvoirs-163040).

Eight years after the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Assembly has just adopted, amid a certain degree of indifference, the bill on the prevention of terrorist acts and intelligence. The text is now being examined by the Senate.

This is the first major revision of the intelligence law adopted in 2015. At the time, the Manuel Valls government defended the text by explaining that France was “one of the last Western democracies without a coherent and comprehensive legal framework for intelligence activities.”

Intelligence on Félix Tréguer

Surveillance State of Play in France

In France, Intelligence Agencies Remain Without Sufficient Checks & Balances