Olivier Becht: Create a constitutional High Authority for transparency and privacy, formed by merging the CNIL, the HATVP and the CADA
Proposal put forward by Olivier Becht on October 29, 2026. Topic: Rights, Freedoms and Disinformation. The observatory also publishes quotes from 10 other public figures on this topic.
we will introduce into the Constitution a High Authority for public transparency and respect for privacy, born of the merger of the CNIL, the Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique and the commission d'accès aux documents administratifs, so that advances in digital technology, neurotechnologies or biotechnologies threaten neither the health nor the intimacy of each individual.
Original quote (French)
nous introduirons dans la Constitution, une Haute Autorité pour la transparence publique et le respect de la vie privée, née de la fusion de la CNIL, de la Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique et de la commission d’accès aux documents administratifs, pour que les progrès du numérique, des neurotechnologies ou des biotechnologies ne menacent ni la santé ni l’intimité de chacun.Source: becht2027.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Require digital platforms to prove the absence of addictive mechanisms before any launch
- Bruno Retailleau: Ban any administrative refusal based solely on the output of an automated system
- Dominique de Villepin: Law on the transparency of algorithmic systems and a ban on infinite scrolling for minors
- Emmanuel Maurel: Regulating, or even banning, addictive social media algorithms
- Gabriel Attal: Require transparency of social media algorithms to allow researchers to study them
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Strengthening the CNIL's resources to ensure the application of the GDPR's security requirements
- Juan Branco: Impose transparency of social network algorithms
- Marine Tondelier: Adopt European legislation (AI Act II) establishing a right to opt out of AI in software
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Ban biases and filters introduced into AI by service providers
- Raphaël Glucksmann: Imposing Rules by Design Against Addictive Social Media Algorithms
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