France

An association representing major Internet companies - including Google, Facebook, and Ebay - is set to file a complaint with France's State Council against a decree requiring companies to keep their customers’ personal data for a year.

France has joined nations calling for an inquiry into Google's practices as it gathers data for a controversial mapping service after it emerged that Google had also collected personal information sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems.

Product DescriptionThis book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinizes...