Dear all, I have been too busy to keep you posted before this morning, but an epic fight is taking place in France around provisions that were injected in the Loi de programmation militaire and that would create a legal basis for a real-time, administratively ordered, generalized to all information and documents, to hosting as well as to access services, non-judiciary, open finality including "economic and scientific potential of France". Civil society was slow in spotting and reacting this extreme danger, but is catching back. The press has now extensive coverage of the issue. Yesterday evening an interview by the French "digital champion" Gilles Babinet declaring that "this is law is the most offensive attack on democracy since exception courts during the Algerian war" and my post "Les parlementaires vont-ils consentir à la démocrature ?" were compering in Internet buzzing with the announcement that Hollande and Sarkozy will go together to Mandela's funeral. The governement is rushing the legislative process, using the urgency of adoption of the rest of the law (on which the continued budget of the military rests) to force the surveillance part. Any contribution to our fight from the French-connnected subscribers to this list will be appreciated. I take the freedom to use the list in this manner because I doubt that anybody on it could desire the adoption in a European country (or any other) of such provisions. Best, Philippe