Five Bar and Cafe Owners Arrested in France for Running No-Log WiFi Networks
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:
Five bar and cafe owners arrested in France for running no-log WiFi networks:
In one of the weirdest arrests of the year, at least five bar and cafe managers from the French city of Grenoble were taken into custody last week for running open WiFi networks at their establishments and not keeping logs of past connected users.
The bar and cafe owners were arrested for allegedly breaking a 14-year-old French law that dictates that all internet service providers must keep logs on all their users for at least one year.
According to local media reports, the bar and cafe owners claimed they were not aware that such a law even existed, let alone that it applied to them as they had not received notifications from their union, which usually sends alerts of industry-wide legal requirements.
[...] The bar and cafe owners were eventually released after questioning.
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