The French parliament has overwhelmingly approved a controversial surveillance bill. This comes in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack that killed 17 people in January.
The new law will allow authorities to spy on digital and mobile phone communications of anyone linked to a terrorist inquiry without prior authorization from a judge. Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private homes and add keyloggers to computers to track every keystroke.
The bill also allows intelligence service to vacuum up metadata, which would then be subject to analysis for potentially suspicious behavior. The national assembly passed the bill by 438 votes to 86. It still needs to go through the Senate in June before being officially legalized.