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Daily Dashboard | New French Law Draws U.S. Comparisons Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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The French government’s plan to augment its anti-terror surveillance is being compared to the USA PATRIOT Act, DW reports. “France's ruling socialist government rushed through the bill earlier this year, shortly after the Islamist militant attacks in Paris in which 17 people were killed over three days,” the report states. While the law won’t be finalized until it is proven constitutional, it passed “by a simple show of hands from deputies in France's National Assembly,” forgoing “the need for judicial warrants to use an array of spying devices including cameras, phone taps and hidden microphones,” the report continues. Earlier this week, however, the French government called revelations of eavesdropping by the U.S. government on the private conversations of senior French leaders "unacceptable."
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