PARIS (Reuters) - France's Green Party said it would back a campaign to force the constitutional court to review a new law that expands the government's powers to monitor phone and Internet connection data without authorisation from a judge.
The new measure, which grants monitoring powers to additional agencies such as tax and finance authorities and broadens the reasons surveillance can be carried out, was included in a military budget law passed on Tuesday. In the Senate, 164 voted for the law and 146 against.
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