{"id":22156,"date":"2011-04-08T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22156"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:40:27","slug":"france-internet-companies-go-to-court-against-new-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22156","title":{"rendered":"France: Internet companies go to court against new regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Association of Internet Community Services, a group of more than 20 internet companies including Facebook and eBay, have gone to court over new a new <a title=\"Telegraph: Facebook and Google fight French police's data demands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/facebook\/8434795\/Facebook-and-Google-fight-French-polices-data-demands.html\" target=\"_blank\">regulation<\/a> which obliges them to store extensive data on their users. The data includes full names, passwords and telephone numbers. Under the new law, Internet companies are <a title=\"Reporters Without Borders: Internet companies challenge decree requiring them to store personal data\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/france-internet-companies-challenge-07-04-2011,39980.html\" target=\"_blank\">obliged<\/a> to share this information with French authorities as and when they are required do so. The Association has complained that the French government failed to consult with the European Commission prior to passing the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Association of Internet Community Services, a group of more than 20 internet companies including Facebook and eBay, have gone to court over new a new regulation which obliges them to store extensive data on their users. The data includes full names, passwords and telephone numbers. Under the new law, Internet companies are obliged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[3350,552,136,7375,3352,117,3351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22165,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156\/revisions\/22165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}