http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/world/europe/french-legislators-approve-sw... Mr. Valls promised that the law would be “targeted” and insisted that its main focus was to protect French citizens from terrorism. “The means of surveillance for anticipating, detecting and prevention of attacks will be strictly limited,” he promised. “It is a state lie,” said Pierre-Olivier Sur, the head of the Paris bar association. “This project was presented to us as a way to protect France against terrorism, and if that were the case, I would back it.” “But it is being done to put in place a sort of Patriot Act concerning the activities of each and everyone,” he said, “I think that opportunistic laws are always bad laws,” the editor in chief, Gérard Biard, said “The requirement that the Internet companies use the black boxes is a requirement that Russia has as well,”