[open-government] Morality checks on OpenData in France fixed in LOPPSI bill

Fri Dec 17 14:24:16 UTC 2010

Dear Benjamin,

Congratulation for this news. It was great to be involved!

Have all very nice holidays!

All the best,

Vicky

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El 17/12/2010 14:26, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou escribió:
> Dear everyone,
>
> We're a bit tired having followed (and tweeted) live from the public
> most of the debates on the LOPPSI law at french National Assembly, but
> quite satisfied for the specific subject of OpenData. On an opposite
> note, MP's voted some serious threats to Internet neutrality that
> keeps raising very serious concerns since administrative filtering of
> websites without any intervention of a judge was adopted :
> http://www.laquadrature.net/en/administrative-net-censorship-adopted-in-france-pedophiles-unworried
>
> But regarding OpenData, after our first raises of concerns, multiple
> MP's from all political groups proposed amendments in order to either
> remove, either rewrite properly, the dangerous article 30ter about
> "morality checks" on public data reusers.
> In the end, after the international letter was sent out, the official
> commission that usually settles the votes also decided at the last
> minute to propose an amendment, which was adopted and passed over all
> of the others.
>
> This amendment (number 332 :
> http://www.nosdeputes.fr/amendement/2827/332 ) rewrites the whole
> article 30 ter to define these morality checks specifically on the
> only case that was primarily intended : private personnal data of cars
> immatriculation. Therefore the bill does not refer anymore at all to
> the law of access to information of 1978. We could still argue that
> having such personnal data accessible to commercial marketting
> purposes is condemnable (and may be removed during the last debates at
> the Senate in a couple months) but this does not concern open or
> public data at all anymore.
>
> So cheers and thanks again to everyone who participated in this by
> signing and talking about the open letter !
> Big up to Victoria and Helen from Access Info Europe for their help !
>
> Happy holidays !
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens
> http://www.regardscitoyens.org
>
> PS : For french viewers or readers, we've put the video of the debates
> online at the following address : http://vimeo.com/17896937
> The report of the debates can also be read here :
> http://www.nosdeputes.fr/seance/4510#table_12796
>
>
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