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French Intelligence Bill: 5 Web Hosting Providers Threaten To Leave the Country
albert555 (3986073) writes Five popular French web hosting providers, including Gandi and OVH, said on Thursday that the new French intelligence bill might push them to leave the country (French) in order not to lose their customers. The five companies are protesting against the "real-time capture of data connection" and their analysis by the intelligence services using "+black boxes+ with blurred lines". The web hosting providers believe that this project "will not reach its goal and will potentially put every French citizen under surveillance, that will result in the destruction of a major segment of the economy of our country," by pushing their customers to turn to other less intrusive territories. If the bill is passed as it is, "we have to move our infrastructure, our investments and our employees where our customers want to work with us". The companies have provided a listing of dozen cities where they "will suppress jobs instead of creating new ones."; "These are thousands of jobs (...) that startups and large companies will also create elsewhere," they add. The press release was addressed to the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, and was co-signed by Gandu, OVH, IDS, Ikoula and Lomaco.
The cowardly French companies are running away!
Don't blame them a bit.. It's not gonna be long before that starts happening in the USA... if it hasn't already...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
"Why do the policiians not realize that the tools they are giving can and will be misused"
They fully know the tools will be misused. It's only they believe they can misuse them for their benefit.
"and that those same politicians are very likely to be the targets of that misuse?"
See above.
At this point, the only real option is to assume that all traffic on the public internet is being monitored by at least one government, if not more. Good reason to use encryption - and don't store anything confidential unencrypted on a computer you have not got physical control over.
All nation's gov are monitoring the net. So many idiots scream about America, but the fact is, that all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, India, etc have been caught monitoring data and lines. There are LOADS of enemies out there, and every nation's gov wants to know what is going on.
If these host providers move anywhere on ANY LAND, they will be monitored. The ONLY way to avoid it, is to put your own sat network up there and beam down to others.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Same reason no bank robber ponders the implications of getting caught. That't not part of the plan. They have enough hubris to think of themselves infallible and don't deem it possible that their master plan could backfire.
For reference, see Nazi Germany and their zeal for recording pretty much any and every single one of their crimes.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Nazi Germany and their zeal for recording pretty much any and every single one of their crimes.
They thought they were Right, and so they were just recording history.
Israel certainly learned from the mistakes of the Nazis.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.