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  • French net filtering plan moves forward

    French lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic, a measure the government says is intended to catch child pornographers. The bill will now go on for a second and final reading.

    Written by Peter Sayer17 Feb. 10 22:09
  • French court fines eBay US$2.5 million

    A French court has fined eBay €1.7 million (US$2.5 million) for failing to comply with an earlier ruling that required the online retailer to prevent the sale of certain brands of perfume to French consumers on its sites.

    Written by Nancy Gohring01 Dec. 09 07:20
  • French Senate moves to ban mobile phones in schools

    Pupils at French primary schools and middle schools could be banned from using mobile phones in school under draft legislation approved Thursday by the French Senate.

    Written by Peter Sayer12 Oct. 09 17:35
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  • Pirate Party finds France fertile territory

    Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval.

    Written by Peter Sayer27 June 09 01:26
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