From the title, I expected the law to be about forbidding companies to keep too much data about their users. (which would explain Google's and Facebook's uproar) Consumer rights, or so I thought, tend to be pretty good in France in that regard.<p>So, I'm pretty surprised to see the French government calling for <i>more</i> tracking of user data. I'm pretty shocked that this could go through.<p>Full names, addresses and phone numbers is bad but is somewhat available information. Keeping passwords (and I imagine plain text, otherwise I don't see the point) is pretty indefensible. I imagine that if one were to refuse to give out their password to their computer, the police could just request the passwords from a bunch of sites and try? (good incentive to use unique passwords...)<p>Fucked up.