The file YOUR brings together in a single database (identity, eye color, home address, photo, fingerprints…) holders of a passport and an identity card and regarding potentially nearly 60 million French. – F. LODI/SIPA

What future emerges for the mégafichier TES ? Passed in secret by decree during the weekend of all saints, the mégafichier gathering the personal data of the French been the subject of sharp criticism since its publication in the official Journal. Holder of the project, Bernard Cazeneuve ensures that the creation of such a file is justified in the name of administrative simplification, but even in the ranks of the government and institutions such as the French CNIL, the constitution of this enormous database of black cohosh without consulting parliamentary cringe.

That contains the file YOUR and how will it be used ?

Called “electronic Titles” secure information systems ” (TES), this file brings together in a single information database on all passport holders and an id card. The name, the forenames, the date and place of birth, sex, eye color, size, place of residence, the names, surnames, dates and places of birth of parents, nationality, as well as a facial photo, but also fingerprints and an e-mail when it has been provided : all of these data will be included in this mégafichier, which potentially concerns nearly 60 million French. Its official launch is expected on Tuesday in the Yvelines department in the ” pilot “, before its generalization in the whole of France at the beginning of 2017.

On paper, this file is intended in particular to combat counterfeiting and identity theft, thanks to the centralized database and so populated. For its part, the government ensures that the file will not be used for identification of suspects in criminal cases. It may, however, be consulted by the intelligence services, police, and gendarmerie who will argue that their approach is intended to ” prevent violations of the fundamental interests of the Nation “. Some of the data contained in this future database will also be able to be passed on to Interpol or the Schengen system.

Why is it criticized and by whom ?

as Soon as recognised, this mégafichier has been the subject of sharp criticism. Among the first to respond, last Tuesday, the president of the it Commission and freedoms (CNIL) Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, objected to the creation of a file as sensitive without parliamentary debate.

” It does not seem to us appropriate for a change of this magnitude can be introduced, almost by stealth, “she said by calling the national representation to enter the folder to weigh the” pros and cons “.

The exceptional size of the file, the risk of piracy and, above all, the conditions of