Three associations filed a QPC on military planning law

The French Data Network (FDN), oldest ISP in France, FDN Federation, which brings together twenty of access to independent regional Internet providers and the Quadrature du Net, defense association of Internet freedoms filed a priority question of constitutionality (QPC) on the controversial Article 20 (formerly Article 13) of the law on military programming, announced the FDN, Wednesday, April 16.

Adopted by a narrow majority 20 December 2014, the law allows "administrative access to connection data", specifically "collection, with electronic communications operators (...) treaties information or documents or preserved through their networks. "

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FDN denounced "an invasion of privacy," and the lack of legal guarantees for maintaining the confidentiality of correspondence, such as between a lawyer and client. It also points out the challenge to the protection of sources for journalists, the connection metadata to know with whom they exchange messages. Finally, it condemns the blurring of terms, including "information" and "documents", which may as well refer to content of e-mails and SMS.

Introduced in 2008, the QPC is a legal device, subject to eligibility, ask the Constitutional Council review of a legislative provision that would impair the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution in order to obtain the repeal .

As stated in the FDN, it is the State Council or not to transmit the QPC to the Constitutional Council. If it is entered, it will then have three months to decide.