The Assembly began on Monday evening to discuss the missions of the intelligence services in a manner somewhat less consensual than expected, several MPs relaying criticism of the bill expressed outside the Chamber and termed ” fantasies “by Manuel Valls. The Prime Minister came in the afternoon to defend himself strengthening the powers of the intelligence services at the time of “digital society that has changed the game” in the fight against terrorism. “When trade is hidden, there must be around the obstacle, or by the use of certain computer intrusion techniques or by the use of sound private places or by geolocation in real time people,” -t he justified. The text “installs in any way a police surveillance apparatus of the population,” he assured denouncing the “fantasies” of those who in recent days in the press denounced the beginning of a “surveillance mass “.
The adoption of the text, which will be debated and voted on until Thursday May 5th, certainly doubt. “The war against terrorism requires to overcome political differences … This is the reason why we take our responsibility by supporting, very controlling way this bill,” said Eric Ciotti the UMP in the name of his group in response to the Prime Minister. But in the evening several elected UMP as Patrick Hetzel, Patrick Devedjian, Claude Goasguen, Lionel Tardy or Pierre Lellouche held quite different discourse, not hesitating to suggest a potentially text “draconian” if it is “misused” . The member FN Marion Maréchal-Le Pen can not it, “explain to the French that their safety will be at the price of their freedom.”
MPs are concerned “fuzzy” measures
The bill, which is part of the legislative response to the attacks of Paris, but was decided in July 2014, wants to give a legal framework for intelligence services in France which operated so far in a “gray area” according to the rapporteur Jean-Jacques Urvoas (PS). It defines the service tasks (indoor, outdoor, military, customs …) that go beyond “the prevention of terrorism.” Several members of the left wing of the PS as Pascal Cherki or environmentalists as Sergio Coronado and were worried about the “vagueness” of a mission as “the defense and promotion of economic interests, major industrial and scientific of France” after Jean-Jacques Urvoas rather “our services must fight against economic predation.”
Another purpose extensively questioned, “the prevention of harm to the republican institutions, collective violence likely to impair the national security.” For the former Defence Minister Herve Morin UDI, “the scope is far too broad, it covers the entire life of the national community.” “It is not the new provisions,” said the Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve.
Control under the spotlight
Members continue Tuesday afternoon debate on the tasks before moving to information technology (sheets, installation of cameras or spy software, access to connection data, etc.) to monitor the person (or his friends) and their authorization scheme (purpose, duration, retention and destruction of data .. .) under the control of a new independent administrative authority. A point focus the fears of NGOs and the digital actors: the establishment, on operator networks, automatic analysis tools (an algorithm) to detect a “suspect estate login data” a “threat terrorist “. Several computer data hosting threatened to move their servers to protest against what amounts to a “mass surveillance form.”
“The monitoring will be focused strictly on the threatening behavior,” said Manuel Valls, announcing amendments to control these algorithms and more generally to protect intelligence technical professions (judges, parliamentarians, journalists, lawyers ). Jean-Jacques Urvoas insists his side on “guarantees” provided by the future national control intelligence technical Commission (CNCTR) to be “a lot more power” than CNCIS (National Control Commission Security interceptions) that it replaces. The commission – made up of four judges, four MPs and a specialist in electronic communications – must give prior notice to each implementation of these techniques in the country, except in emergencies. The Prime Minister will go on, but the reasons for its decision. The Commission may access the information collected, their traceability and premises where they are centralized. It may also enter the Council of State.
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