French Intelligence Law: OVH's Point of View

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> This law is not good for our country. Why? Because it will change our behavior, our way of life every day, especially when using the telephones and the Internet. We will have the feeling of being constantly tapped and this will create a psychosis in the population.

I'm willing to bet that statement is wrong and behaviors won't change for 99% of the population. Unfortunately, even people aware of privacy issues willingly put their data in the hands of companies such as Google, Facebook etc. where the privacy is limited.

I'm willing to be it will change people's behaviour. How much are we betting here?

99%, you say. I live in a country where 3% of the adult population used Tor yesterday, so you're off by at least 2%.

Interesting. What is your country?

First, I was woozy, it's actually 0.3% daily Tor users, not 3%.

But I live in Germany, and in my environment much more than 1% have changed behaviour in minor ways. For example, when a dance school filmed a performance a few weeks ago, the parents were strongly in favour of keeping that off the net, and particularly keeping the children's names off.

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