[hokkos]

So what are your suggestions ? Every rental car company should forward the identity of every client to the secret service ? Every hotel and airbnb host should send the name of their client to the DGSE ?

Don't you see that most of the laws they voted are just the transposition from what where done in the real world to the internet ? For example hidden microphone in a suspect home applied to the internet is a spyware.

Unconfirmed report didn't that said that policemen but the CIA equivalent the DGSE listened a conversation where a woman said she wanted to be a martyr. A meeting was scheduled with the FBI equivalent the DGSI but too late. This is undeniably a failure and the services should be quicker and more cooperative between them. But we don't know if they listen to the same threats every days, when there is 11000 extremist Muslims for 5000 secret agent and less than 10000 in both services.

[facepalm]

If you own a car or live somewhere, you actually have to register with the police. In that light it doesn't seem so far fetched to me to demand the same for temporary rentals.

[LBarret]

You have to draw the line somewhere. It is a balance between reasonnable information for the police and privacy.

Except when you're linked to an investigation, you don't have to proove you're innocent of any crime. Still, all those laws seems to think the opposite : police will have access to all your data like if you were convicted. Guilty until prooven innocent.

Beside, it's not like governments never abuse this kind of info.

[facepalm]

I'm just saying what is the status quo, at least in my country. But I assume it is the same in the US. If you have a car, you need to register a license plate. If you live somewhere, you have to announce your residency to the administration of your city.

I am not advocating anything.