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While snooping security agencies condemn U.S. on European citizens , France has passed a law that will grant their intelligence the power to extend its own activity monitoring - without judicial oversight.

In 2015 , the French agencies will gain power to record telephone conversations and e-mail access , location data and other electronic communications for a wide range of reasons, including national security and the protection of the commercial interests of France. Internet companies and human rights groups opposed the new law, which makes no legal oversight over the agencies.

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"It's sad that France and other European governments ... are determined to push through the strongest snooping laws made ​​," said Index on Censorship , warning that other European countries will follow suit.

Bill of Defense 2014-2019 , a bill of costs other military routinely adopted in the French parliament last week . Intelligence services specified may monitor communications very broadly , among other reasons of "national security " to protect "the scientific and economic potential of France " , and to prevent terrorism and "crime and organized crime " .

The bill specifically makes permanent some emergency powers that were granted by the 2006 anti-terrorism laws , and have since expanded . Allows the contents of communications to be monitored along with login details and authorize the live capture of documents. These powers outside of law enforcement and military intelligence , for example , the Ministry of Finance extends .

Privacy advocates have criticized these powers as too broad , with the Association of Internet Community Services ( ASIC) calling for a " moratorium on the adoption of new powers of access to users that are not subject to any control or authorization a judge. "

"We are on the verge of a digital dictatorship ," said Gilles Babinet , Chairman of the French Digital National Council , often described as the " Digital Champion " of France. However , opposition to the law was too little too late , according to our colleagues at ITespresso France.

Journalists are even more surprised by the government's defense - that the bill is not the addition of new powers. Instead , they say, simply explains, adding a bit of supervision , which the authorities are already doing, which only began to be made public when it was revealed by the media in July this year.

According to the advocacy group La Quadrature du Net, the only control measure will be secret advice to the Prime Minister , a process complains that the site "has no weight at all. "