French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs - FSO News
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Five bar proprietors in Grenoble, France have been captured for giving WiFi at their organizations without keeping logs. The bar proprietors were captured under a 2006 law that in fact groups WiFi hotspot giving foundations as ISPs, and expects them to store one year of logs or association records for against psychological oppression purposes. This […]
  • testfactor@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Holy cannoli!

    One of the captured bar proprietors noticed that the pertinent association, Umih, never noticed this necessity while reestablishing his permit:

    “No one, not even the experts of Umih who give obligatory preparing as a component of a permit IV resumption, to me never said I should keep this set of experiences.”

    In light of inquiries by BFM Business, Umih conceded that the preparation doesn’t make reference to WiFi logging yet noticed that Umih individuals ought to have thought about this significant prerequisite since it was referenced in a bulletin.

    So they even had to get accredited when standing up the WiFi, the accreditation organization didn’t mention it, then when charged with a crime have the audacity to say, “well, I mean, he should have known.”

    My brother in Christ, this guy just owns a coffee shop. Why on earth should he be deep in the weeds on technical regulations.

  • norz@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 months ago

    A possible explanation for this severe enforcement of the law is that it could be related to other law violations, such as drug dealing.
    (See comments on the NextInpact article (in French).)