Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI)
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French Homeland Intelligence Threatens A Volunteer Sysop To Delete A Wikipedia Article
Press Release |
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimédia France |
April 6, 2013
In early March, the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) contacted the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which hosts Wikipedia. They claimed that an article on the French-language Wikipedia about a French military compound contained classified military information, and demanded its immediate deletion. Read More »
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French Intelligence Agency Sees Firsthand The Streisand Effect
David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | April 8, 2013
The French government is learning firsthand about the Streisand Effect after Wikimedia France issued April 6 a press release stating that a domestic intelligence agency threatened a volunteer with arrest unless he deleted an entry about a military communications base near Lyons. Read More »
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Wikipedia Editor Allegedly Forced By French Intelligence To Delete “Classified” Entry
Megan Geuss | Ars Technica | April 6, 2013
A military compound becomes a lesson in obscurity on the Internet. Read More »
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