INFO FRANCEINFO. Filters, tougher penalties… The government unveils a new bill to fight against online scams and cyber-harassment

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is due to unveil her “roadmap” for the next 100 days on Wednesday and thus turn the page on pensions, as Emmanuel Macron requested during his speech on April 17. Among the government’s proposals, a digital bill will be presented to counter online scams or cyber-harassment.

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Reinforced penalties

Among these measures, we find in particular the implementation of an anti-scam filter, to warn Internet users when they receive a fraudulent email or text message, the possibility of choosing their browser and search engine or even the portability of the cloud to transfer data easily and free of charge from an Amazon tool to a Microsoft tool, for example.

On the sanctions side, the government wants to create an additional penalty for cyber-harassers prohibiting them from registering on social networks. He also wants to force platforms to quickly remove child pornography content under penalty of penalties as severe as for terrorist content. These platforms could be blocked if they broadcast media banned in France, such as the Russian channel RT.

“Consensus”

“This is one of the subjects on which we managed to agree with parliamentarians“, slips a minister, who believes that the subject can do”consensus“. A law project “very concrete, tangible” which can be the subject of a rapid examination, it is “completely suited to the idea of ​​the 100 days!“, we imagine the government.

The text should be proposed to the Senate in early June, and in the process to the Assembly.