The government wants to implement by the end of 2023 an “anti-scam filter” on the Internet that will warn Internet users if they click on a link leading to a fraudulent site, the Deputy Minister in charge of Digital Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Monday in France info. An Emmanuel Macron campaign promise, first mentioned in March 2022.
The future filter “will notify the Internet user or user when they are about to go to a site that has been identified as a scam site. You will be free to go there but you will have received a warning.”
“We are working so that, on the horizon of the Rugby World Cup (September 2023), a first experimental version is available and that it can be generalized on the horizon of the 2024 Olympic Games”, he added, because “during the events internationally, scams are multiplying”.
red list
To work, this device would rely on telecommunications operators, responsible for creating a “red list” of sites reported as linked to scams. An operation that could also be collaborative, like the one offered by some applications against telephone scams.
Another tool scheduled for the end of the year, the “ciberscore”, recalled the minister, a measure voted by Parliament a year ago and which he promised for “the end of 2023”.
Like the NutriScore for food in supermarkets, “for the most visited sites it is a matter of having an indicator that goes from green to red and that specifies to the Internet user whether the personal data or the payment data that they are going to deposit on this site are well protected,” explained Mr Barrot.
This cyber score will “promote sites that secure their Internet users’ data and encourage those that don’t to do so,” he said. MEPs stipulated that data localization would also be integrated into the diagnosis.
Source: BFM TV
