Intelligence Act: "a real threat" according to the Mozilla Foundation ~ DepoTech

The Mozilla Foundation, a stickler for personal data security issues, held to remind the French government to order in an open letter denouncing the Intelligence Act.

At the heart of the philosophy of the Mozilla Foundation, the security of personal data plays an important role. The creator of the popular Firefox browser could therefore not give its opinion on the Intelligence Law enacted by the French government that allows it to have a range of information gathering tools.

The foundation wanted to write an open letter to the French Government to express his feelings more than lukewarm on this supposed law protected French citizens against the terrorist threat.

The method of the French government does not pass from Mozilla

Initially, the foundation regret almost unilateral decision of the government and that "no stakeholder consultation has been conducted in the presence." Moreover, the contours of the law seem too vague for Mozilla who believes that "the exact terms of the bill seem to change frequently" and that "the discussions conducted secretly, behind closed doors, rarely result in strong legislation. "The foundation would be established that a public debate so that everyone can take part in the discussion on the draft intelligence law.

Mozilla, which has always worked for an open Web, believes that the government's response is "disproportionate violation of privacy and undermines the trust necessary for the operation of an open Internet."

A law that would go against his first goal

Supposed to protect the population, the Act intelligence would be the opposite of the first commitment since the analysis of trade and metadata "pose a threat to the Internet infrastructure, user privacy, and for safety data and e-commerce. "
Last point made by Mozilla, the lack of transparency on the implementation of this monitoring "This provision requires companies to allow government surveillance of online activity of all users in search of an obscure set of patterns behavioral suspects ", the foundation requires the French Government to avoid putting in opposition confidentiality and security, two values that should instead be mutually reinforcing.