It's not final yet, it still needs to go through the Senate. More details here [1]. It's different from the Australian law, as it's more focused on administrative (as opposed to judicial) censorship rather than spying. It's obviously bad too.
Sadly, the judicial arsenal for no-oversight spying on telecommunication is in place since 2013 [2], as part of the Military Programming Law. Not that the DGSE would wait for a law to do something like this anyway [3].
Sadly, the judicial arsenal for no-oversight spying on telecommunication is in place since 2013 [2], as part of the Military Programming Law. Not that the DGSE would wait for a law to do something like this anyway [3].
1: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/france-adopts-anti-terror-law...
2: http://en.rsf.org/alarm-over-massive-spying-12-12-2013,45606...
3: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/orange-gives-all-of-its-dat...