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Les exégètes amateurs

Legal working group shared by French Data Network (FDN), La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) and the Federation of non-profit Internet access providers (Fédération FDN). Since December 2014.

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Press review

Articles in English

Intelligence: The "Exegetes" debug France's surveillance laws [EN], Michel Deléan and Jérôme Hourdeaux (26 October, 2015)

Articles in French

Le Monde

Organisations request a review of the Intelligence Act [FR], by Martin Untersinger (10 May, 2016)

Concern about metadata [FR], Franck Johannès (22 July, 2015)

The Intelligence Act definitely adopted [FR], Franck Johannès (25 June, 2015)

Three organisations lodge a Priority Preliminary ruling on the issue of constitutionality (QPC) against the Military Programming Act1 [FR] (16 April 2015)

Websites blocking brought before the Conseil d'État [FR] (2 April 2015)

Libération

Data on the web: all suspects, press tribune of the Exegetes published online [FR] and on paper (18 June 2017). Here is our translation (soon available)

Mediapart

Intelligence: The "Exegetes" debug France's surveillance laws [FR], Michel Deléan and Jérôme Hourdeaux (26 October, 2015)

NextInpact

The Exegetes put further pressure on data retention obligation [FR], Marc Rees (23 May 2015)

Flood of proceedings against the Intelligence Act [FR], Marc Rees (10 May 2016)

Intelligence Act: imbroglio on the status of URL [FR], Marc Rees (23 February 2016)

Two legal actions in France against global surveillance and data retention [FR], Marc Rees (3 September 2015)

Metadata: Some blur remains on the perimeter of surveillance [FR], Marc Rees (28 July 2015)

Metadata, lawyers, journalists: arm wrestling before the Constitutionnal Council [FR], Marc Rees (21 Juli 2015)

Intelligence Act: the legal brief of the Quadrature, FDN and FFDN in a nutshell [FR], Marc Rees (24 June, 2015)

Le Figaro

Intelligence Act: Opponents to the Surveillance Act make their last-ditch effort [FR], Jules Darmanin (23 June 2015)


  1. The law providing for France's defence and military legal framework for 2014-2018.