Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Google, Facebook, Dailymotion file an appeal with the State Council

The major Internet players in France, including Facebook, Google or Dailymotion, Wednesday will file an action for annulment before the Conseil d'Etat against a decree requiring them to keep for one year the personal data of the user. PriceMinister, Dailymotion or eBay are also stakeholders in this process, conducted by the French Association of Community Internet Services (ASIC), which groups the main companies of the French Internet.

"The ASIC urges an appeal before the Conseil d'Etat decree against the data storage connection," said BenoƮt Tabaka, Secretary General of the ASIC, at a press conference. "IT'S A MEASURE THAT WE SHOCKED" The decree was published in early March under the Official Journal. It requires e-commerce sites, video platforms, online music, or managers of mailboxes to hold "full name", "postal addresses associated", "used the pseudonyms", "the e-mail addresses or account associated "," telephone numbers "of their customers, and especially" the password and the information needed to verify or modify.

" This information must be kept for one year and may be claimed in their investigations of the police, the gendarmerie, fraud prevention, customs, taxation or the Urssaf. "Several elements are problematic," said Mr. Tabaka. For example, there has been no consultation of the European Commission.

This is something that shocks us, this obligation to keep passwords and transmitting them to the police, "he said.

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