a first version available “on the horizon of the Rugby World Cup”, according to the Minister for the Digital Transition

“I am currently working on the development of an anti-scam filter that will warn the Internet user when he is about to go to a site that has been identified as a scam site”, explains the Minister Delegate in charge of the Digital Transition, Jean-Noël Barrot, Monday, February 20 on franceinfo. He recalls that this device was a “commitment of the President of the Republic during the campaign”.

THE “scam filter” will be “a bulwark against fake SMS scams”. “Who hasn’t received fake text messages on the training account, on Social Security, on Crit’air vignettes? It’s simply unbearable”he laments. “We must put an end to this anxiety that grips our fellow citizens in the digital space”from where “this scam filter” For “guarantee cybersecurity to all French people”.

“We are working to ensure that on the horizon of the Rugby World Cup” in September“a first version is available”, he says. It would be “an experimental version, so that it is enriched and that it can be generalized on the horizon of the Olympic Games of 2024”. “During international events, we typically see scams multiply”, he justifies. For this reason, “we have to be ready”.

Cyberscore under development

THE “scam filter is not the only answer” to ensure “everyday cybersecurity” : there is also “the cyberscore”he says. “For the websites which are the most consulted by the French, it is a question of having an indicator which goes from green to red and which specifies to the Internet user if the personal data or if the payment data that he is going to deposit on this site are very secure”, he explains. These measures “is also under development”. The government’s objective is that“at the end of 2023, it will be able to appear on the websites most consulted by the French”.