Table of Contents: The Law has been Approved!

French government has passed a very controversial surveillance law, just a day after WikiLeaks came back in action by revealing that NSA (National Security Agency) have been spying on the last three French Presidents and a lot of other French officials; after which French Government became vigilante in the process of passing this bill, and after proper endorsements and approvals, the bill was passed in the national assembly by 438 votes to 86, with a handful of no votes from Socialist MPs.

What is this New Surveillance law?

This new law will allow the French government to spy freely on its citizens by tapping their phones, accessing their emails or intrude into their digital communications. Intelligence agencies are now also permitted to put cameras or recording devices in the homes of those who they think are ‘suspicious’.

Moreover Internet Service Providers are also instructed to integrate an especially designed algorithm into their services that will monitor the behavioral pattern of every internet user, their searches, and their every digital footprint to gauge if any of the patterns is suspicious or could potentially be indicating acts of terror.

But, the undeniable fact is that every government spies on their citizens; French Government just made it official. And if you are residing in France, there is a high possibility that you are being spied on just as you are reading this article.

So, the way you use to use internet is now changed! The big question is, “Are you prepared to embrace this change”? Because your carelessness will make you vulnerable. Vulnerable to everything that you may or may not be directly involved in.

The Law has been Approved!

On 24th July 2015, the French Constitutional Council approved this law giving French authorities the right to eavesdropping. The law, which originated as a result of the shooting in March this year in which 17 people were killed by a gunman in Paris, is comparable to the US Patriot Act which was introduced after the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

The French President Francois Hollande was one of the supporters of this law.

The bill has now empowered legal authorities to tap phones, use surveillance tactics and hidden microphones, spy on emails, and force ISPs to monitor behavior and activities of their customers. This bill has also waived the requirement of a warrant, and hence the security forces can act without the approval of a judge.

The constitutional Council however rejected two of the articles; one of which would have empowered authorities to take action in emergency situations without getting an approval and the other one was related international surveillance which was rejected on the grounds of lack of condition-clarity.

How to maintain your Privacy?

Now, this is your Aladdin-just-found-the-genie-moment, because thankfully there is a technology which is solely developed to safeguard your privacy and make you secure over internet, and that is known as VPN (Virtual Private Network). Once you are on a Virtual Private Network, you are anonymous and secure from all the government officials, spies, investigators, hackers or anyone with malicious intent to barge into your digital private space.

A lot of VPNs. Whom to trust?

As it is clearly indicated in this Surveillance law that French Government can fetch any internet user’s data from ISPs, and they will be bound to provide it, and a lot of VPN providers out there also keep logs of their users, so, which one to trust?

So, when conditions are dire, Ivacy VPN is the best and the most trusted VPN out there, which you can opt as your digital savior. We are trusted by millions of internet users all over the world because of our “No logging Policy” and spectacular service.

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