French Government Approves New Surveillance Policies

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

The French parliament has passed a law that would strengthen intelligence services saying that the changes would improve their ability to fight Islamic extremists.

The law passed 438-86.  The bill was written three days after the Islamic attacks in Paris in January that left 17 people dead.  Socialist government leaders say the new bill takes into account changes in technology.

Critics of the bill say that it is an extension of mass surveillance that further increases the government’s infringement on the personal freedom of citizens.

The focus is on the government now being allowed to collect massive amounts of metadata that would detail the times and places that citizens visit during their day.  Similar to the collection of data that was exposed being done by the NSA in the USA.

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