La Quadrature du Net

27 April 2018 - La Quadrature du Net signs with other European organizations a letter to Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to ask them to stand for strong, independent regulatory authorities. During the non-transparent trilogue1 that took place on Wednesday on the European electronic communications code, the Member States and some MEPs agreed on an article that could create ambiguities on the competences of the national regulatory authorities (NRAs), enabling other national authorities such as Governments to enforce Net neutrality rules.2 The lack of independence of the authorities that enforce, monitor and assess Net neutrality regulation3 will inevitably lower efficiency of the implementation and favour economic interests of oligopolistics telecom industries.

• 1. Negotiations behind closed doors carried on by delegates of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the European Union.
• 2. The new draft is: "Under the scope of this Directive the national regulatory authority shall be responsible at least for the following tasks: (...) Assessing and monitoring closely market shaping and competition issues regarding open Internet access".
• 3. Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 laying down measures concerning open internet access

18 April 2018 - Last Monday, we launched our class action campaign against GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft). Until May 25th (the day complaints will be brought to the CNIL - the French Data Protection Authority), anyone living in France can join us on gafam.laquadrature.net. These first steps will, over the long term, pave the way to steadily counter the world they are trying to force on us.

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