French Intelligence Bill: 5 Web Hosting Providers Threaten To Leave the Country
Found on Slashdot on Sunday, 12 April 2015
Five popular French web hosting providers, including Gandi and OVH, said on Thursday that the new French intelligence bill might push them to leave the country in order not to lose their customers. The five companies are protesting against the "real-time capture of data connection" and their analysis by the intelligence services using "+black boxes+ with blurred lines".
"These are thousands of jobs (...) that startups and large companies will also create elsewhere," they add. The press release was addressed to the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, and was co-signed by Gandu, OVH, IDS, Ikoula and Lomaco.
Maybe one day the politicians will learn that mass-surveillance will not solve any problems. If you make the haystack bigger, it won't make it easier to find the needle.