According to the BBC, '[t]he law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded.' If the law survives a pending legal challenge by Google, Ebay and others, it may well keep some major services out of the country entirely.
France bans hashed passwords
Posted on Friday, April 08 2011 @ 0:53 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckSlashdot reports a new French data retention law prohibits websites from storing passwords as hashes instead of plain text:
