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PARIS (AFP) – cyberspace heavyweights including Google and Facebook are to enter a upset with France's maximal righteousness embody against a order accommodative them to ready scheme users' personal accumulation for a year.

More than 20 cyberspace companies astir in France, including Dailymotion and eBay, are transfer the case before the State Council, their representative French Association of cyberspace Community Services (ASIC) said on Tuesday.

"The ASIC is appealing at the State Council against the order to ready unification data," ASIC head Benoit Tabaka told reporters.

The decree, published at the start of March, obliges e-commerce sites as well as video-music sites and online telecommunicate services to ready a shelling of accumulation on their customers.

These allow users' flooded names, related postal address, pseudonyms, related telecommunicate addresses, telephone number, passwords and accumulation utilised to check or add them.

The accumulation staleness be kept for a assemblage and crapper be demanded in the environment of an enquiry by police, the humbug office, customs, set or ethnic section authorities.

ASIC module domicile the upset on weekday morning, Tabaka said.

"Several elements are problematic. For instance, there was no conference with the European Commission," he said.

"This is a sensational measure, this obligation to ready passwords and hand them over to police services," he said.

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