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Surveillance: Legislative parody from French MP, Patrica Adam at the Defence Commisson

September 2015 by La Quadrature du Net

The Commission of Defence of the French Lower Chamber has
massively rejected all amendments presented by Laure de La Raudière, Lionel Tardy and Sergio
Coronado (in the group EELV) and will only keep [amendments on procedure][1] (fr). Patricia
Adam, President of the Commission of Defence, and Rapporteur of the bill, is not even trying to
hide her interest to silence any eventual discussion on the regulation of international
surveillance and the huge violation of Human Rights introduced by

Some of the presented amendments to the International Surveillance of Communications Bill were
examined this morning in the Commission for Defence and Military, but it was clear that
fundamental rights mean nothing to National Security in relation to surveillance and
intelligence services.

The few MPs who have done their homework on [amendments ][2] (Fr): Sergio Coronado and other
ecologist colleagues, Laure de la Raudière and Lionel Tardy from Les Républicains (The
Republicans). They tried to limit the toxic law that establishes a massive surveillance system
of worldwide communications. However, they met a total rejection on switching from general
surveillance to targeted surveillance, through the protection of the so-called protected
professions or the reinforcement of the a priori control of the CNCTR on the authorisation of
the application of the surveillance measure. Only some editorial amendments without importance
have been debated and accepted.

Patricia Adam hosted an audition with La Quadrature du Net on September 22, on our request. We
could barely explain our arguments, and were faced with a wall of total refusal to understand
and with a show of contemptuous and offended stares. We tried explaining the technical futility
of differentiating between "national" and "international" surveillance; we conveyed remarks on
the nomination of Mr Francis Delon as chairperson of the CNCTR; and again we voiced our concerns
on regulation that explicitly refers to massive surveillance and yet we met a door closed to
discussion. As such, since even before the parliamentary debate, Patricia Adam showed that she
would not accept any editorial amendments on this law.

**At the time where [a number of international organisations][3] call upon French
representatives to renounce to mass surveillance, how can we accept that France continue to
openly trample the universality of right and present itself as the paragon of democracy and
Human Rights? Because of the lack of background amendments, La Quadrature du Net calls on French
MPs to refuse to vote this bill brought undercover by the government and destined to legalise on
the quiet and fast-tracked the surveillance of the communications of the whole world. The
respect of their own function is at stake.**

* References: *

[1]: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/cr-cdef/14-15/c1415079.asp

[2]: http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/recherche/amendements#listeResultats=tru&idDossierLegislatif=34256&idExamen=5267&numAmend=&idAuteur=&idArticle=&idAlinea=&sort=&dateDebut=&dateFin=&periodeParlementaire=&texteRecherche=&zoneRecherche=tout&nbres=50&format=html®leTri=ordre_texte&ordreTri=croissant&start=1

[3]: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/Civil-rights-groups-condemn-draft-mass-surveillance-bill-to-be-adopted-in-France


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