After weeks of debate, the French parliament has approved a sweeping surveillance bill, aimed at monitoring the phone calls and emails of suspected terrorists. The bill was introduced in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and critics say it will seriously curtail the country's civil liberties. Under the new system, a nine-person committee will oversee the surveillance operations, which are led by the prime minister, but the committee only has the power to advise the prime minister, not to overrule him. As a result, many privacy groups say surveillance power will be dangerously centralized in the wake of the new law.
In 2013, Le Monde reported on a number of similar programs, described as akin to the NSA's PRISM program. The systems...
The French parliament just approved a sweeping surveillance bill
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