French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs - CozyIT
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At least five bar owners in Grenoble, France have been arrested for providing WiFi at their businesses without keeping logs. The bar owners were arrested under a 2006 law that technically classifies WiFi hotspot providing establishments as ISPs, and requires them to store one year’s worth of logs or connection records for anti-terrorism purposes. This […]
    • DrivingForceOP
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      4 years ago

      Tbh I think this is pretty sad overall. The store owner was not properly informed that he even had to do something like that.

  • norz
    2·
    10 months ago

    A possible explanation for this severe enforcement of the law is that it could be related to other law violations, such as drug dealing.
    (See comments on the NextInpact article (in French).)

    • DrivingForceOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      I figure that it the business owners getting in trouble with the law are the ones that have had something like this go on in or around them. (Or more powerful individuals just don’t like them) But it is wrong for law enforcement to have this sort of law on the books in the first place imo. If you need to go after someone harming people, actually go after them. No privacy harming law needed. Especially when this law is rather unknown to the public. Making it more useful as a gotcha than anything else.

  • testfactor@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    Holy cannoli!

    One of the captured bar proprietors noticed that the pertinent association, Umih, never noticed this necessity while reestablishing his permit:

    “No one, not even the experts of Umih who give obligatory preparing as a component of a permit IV resumption, to me never said I should keep this set of experiences.”

    In light of inquiries by BFM Business, Umih conceded that the preparation doesn’t make reference to WiFi logging yet noticed that Umih individuals ought to have thought about this significant prerequisite since it was referenced in a bulletin.

    So they even had to get accredited when standing up the WiFi, the accreditation organization didn’t mention it, then when charged with a crime have the audacity to say, “well, I mean, he should have known.”

    My brother in Christ, this guy just owns a coffee shop. Why on earth should he be deep in the weeds on technical regulations.