{"id":29252,"date":"2015-04-15T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T06:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=29252"},"modified":"2015-04-15T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T06:56:27","slug":"europes-1-hosting-provider-threatens-leave-latest-french-surveillance-law-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/04\/europes-1-hosting-provider-threatens-leave-latest-french-surveillance-law-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe's #1 Hosting Provider threatens to leave if latest French surveillance law passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrance’s latest proposed law may just scare off one of its biggest digital champions. After the French Government\u00a0revealed a proposed law, nearly one year in the works, last month, critics jumped on what they consider to be an overreach of the government’s power without\u00a0checks & balances. Among the critics, Octave Klaba, Polish-born founder of OVH.com<\/a>, Europe’s largest hosting service and the 3rd largest in the world, who, in an interview with Les Echos<\/a>,\u00a0likened the proposed law to the communism he saw as a child in his home country of Poland. Klaba went so far as to say that, should the law pass, OVH would move its servers outside of France to avoid it.
\nThe Roubaix-based hosting provider may have a reason to worry. While the law could only apply to French-based servers, this would unfairly affect OVH against its competitors (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,\u00a0Dreamhost, etc.), as the law allows for governments to install a ‘black box’ that listens to\u00a0all communication going in and out of the servers, and logs certain pre-ordained types of communication.
\nThe proposed law is meant to curb terrorism and create the first legal framework for the government to perform surveillance – it’s not as if they aren’t already doing it, so kudos to them for trying to bring it out of the shadows – however, given that their law directly impacts hosting providers, it’s surprising that they would float such an idea when France’s largest hosting provider would be negatively impacted by it.
\nWe could argue the merits of such a surveillance program, but the reality is that France is still thinking about itself\u00a0as an isolated\u00a0ecosystem, where the Internet does not know borders and governments. How can France expect a\u00a0domestic surveillance law to be effective at curbing terrorism when the line between a domestic website and an internationally hosted one is invisible to users, to companies, to everyone?
\nIt’s worth noting that the law is currently up for debate in the National Assembly, and it\u00a0must also, if approved, pas through the Senate. Other controversial laws, such as the famous 75% tax for millionaires<\/a>, which was declared unconstitutional after it passed through both Assembly and Senate, went through the same mediatized debate. The 2012 Pigeon movement<\/a> was a reaction, as well, to a proposed law which was never passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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