The Constitutional Council has validated most of the law intelligence but censored three articles, one of which was to allow services Intelligence , where “operational emergency” exemption to political authority, told the Council Thursday, July 23. François Hollande has “taken note” Thursday night in a statement that partial censorship, which “in no way alters the balance of the law and does not deprive the service intelligence their means to act to protect our interests and security of the French. ” Manuel Valls on Twitter praised a “breakthrough”.
The Constitutional Council, on this controversial bill by the Head of State, President of the Senate and 60 Deputies, censored article on “operational emergency” that allowed intelligence services to waive the advice of the Prime Minister and the Control Commission. It held that “(wore) a manifestly disproportionate interference with the right to respect for privacy and the secrecy of correspondence.”
The Sages also censored an article regarding the “international supervision” and which referred to the decrees too important parts of the device. “By not defining in the law or the conditions of exploitation, conservation and destruction of information collected pursuant to this article, nor those controlled by the National Control Commission of Technical Intelligence of the legality of authorizations issued under that Article and their conditions of implementation, the legislator has not determined the rules concerning the fundamental guarantees granted to citizens for the exercise of civil liberties ” says the Constitutional Council.
A text criticized by the UN
The third article is censored minor, according to the Council and key finance laws. He also was “consistent with the Constitution” the other provisions of this text opposed by many associations and criticized Thursday by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of the UN.
Have been validated techniques intelligence , which must however be subject to a “strict proportionality test” and “administrative interceptions of correspondence” on the internet. The “sound techniques certain places and vehicles,” as well as “capture images and computer data” are also found to be consistent, as the provisions on geolocation and data collection through “devices” and . the “shelf life” of collected information
The president of the Law Commission, the PS deputy Jean-Jacques Urvoas Finistère, welcomed in a statement: “Almost all of Law on intelligence is found to comply with the Constitution, none of the media-stirred complaints has been upheld. Contrary to what was hammered, this text does not organize anything surveillance Mass. On the contrary, a law that guarantees the protection of freedom through strengthening the rule of law. ” Former Prime Minister “Republicans” Jean-Pierre Raffarin her statement on Twitter that “the Constitutional Council for its opinion raises concerns about the law on the intelligence .”
Wide range of missions
The Parliament adopted permanently end of June, with a final vote of the Assembly, the controversial bill, defended in the name of combating terrorism by but government legalizes practices that critics consider questionable. The text was voted by show of hands by a broad left-right majority, but with dissenting voices in almost every political group.
prevention of attacks with espionage, the text defines a wide range of mission services intelligence , and the system of authorization and control of many espionage techniques (tapping, installation of camera or spy software access the connection data, etc).
(With AFP)
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