On 20 July 2021, the government proposed a new security bill which will, among other things, authorize police drones, the same drones that our collective efforts managed to reject four times last year. The government is rushing to undermine our precious victories...
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Amazon Fined 746 Million Euros Following Our Collective Legal Action
On July 16 2021, the Luxembourg Data Protection Agency finally rendered its opinion on the collective legal action we and 10 000 more people took in May 2018 against Amazon. This decision breaks a three-year silence which had started to make us expect the worst. The...
In memoriam Philippe Aigrain (1949-2021)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Philippe Aigrain on Sunday 10th of July, in the mountains, near his home in the French Pyrénées. Philippe was a computer scientist and a great humanist, a tireless activist, a researcher and an intellectual who...
Open letter calling for a global ban on biometric recognition technologies that enable mass and discriminatory surveillance
La Quadrature du Net is a signatory of an international open letter, signed by more than 170 worldwide associations and written by EDRi, Access Now, Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), et l’Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do...
La Quadrature joins EDRi as a member
After many years of participating in the EDRi network as an observer, working with the collective of European member organisations and the EDRi team in Brussels to protect rights and freedoms in the digital space and beyond, La Quadrature du Net has now joined EDRi as...
France’s police bill: surveillance for the long haul
This artice was originally published by Félix Tréguer on about:intel The French government seems not to be interested in tackling systemic police violence. Instead, one of the most defining features of Macron’s first term as France’s head of state lies in the...
Ruling against intelligence: signs of a half win?
Hearing before the Conseil d’État is in two days, on April 16th, and the Advocate General just revealed the direction of the opinion he will release in our huge case against mass telecom surveillance. If this opinion won’t bind the Conseil d’État, it reveals first...
Technopolice at the borders
How the security-and-surveillance business in the heart of the EU, besides violating fundamental rights, uses exiles as a research lab, funded by European public funds. We have talked a lot here in recent months about the surveillance of demonstrations or surveillance...
Censorship on art to normalize surveillance
La Quadrature du Net is concerned about the censorship by the Studio national d’arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, in Tourcoing, of the artist Paolo Cirio, following an intervention by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, and police unions, who asked in a tweet...
Global Security Law: routine surveillance of demonstrations
On October 10, the deputies of the majority LREM submitted a draft law for “global security”. The National Assembly will debate it on November 4, with unheard-of, unjustified urgency. Its article 21 seeks to deregulate the use of mobile cameras carried by police...
Police files: litigation against the abuse of the “Automatic Control System” file
We have just filed an litigation statement before the Conseil d’État (French supreme administrative court) against the extension of the scope of the file of the “Système de contrôle automatisé” (SCA; Automatic Control System). Since April, this file allows retaining...
Avia Law: Constitutional Council refuses censorship without a judge
Victory! On 18 June 2020, after year-long struggle, the Constitutional Council has declared almost the entire law against online hate contrary to the Constitution. Beyond its decision, the Constitutional Council refuses the principle of censorship without a judge...