France wants to ban public Wi-Fi and Tor in wake of Paris attacks

The Internet in France may soon look quite different.

In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead, French law enforcement wants to ban the use of public Wi-Fi and the secure web network Tor when a state of emergency is declared, according to leaked documents from the French Ministry of Interior seen by French newspaper La Monde. New legislation that includes these stipulations may be presented to the French Parliament as early as January 2016.

Part of the reasoning is that it can be more difficult to track individual users connected to shared public networks. The city of Paris provides free public Wi-Fi in nearly 300 locations around the city Read more...