Opposition to a new security database is gaining momentum in France as people return to work after a summer break during which the government authorized the state to store personal information on ...

Edvige is a copy of a former intelligence information bank created in 1991 with new fields such as mention of handicap and political or religious involvement. These new entries have provoked outrage ...

It was a Frenchman, Michel Foucault, who most famously argued that the etymological link between "states" and "statistics" is no accident—that gathering and organizing information about a population ...