A petition against the “trade secrets” directive

(B2) Elise Lucet, journalist at France Télévisions, has just launched a petition against the Business Law Directive. Within 24 hours, the petition had already reached 40.000 signatories. For the presenter of CashInvestigation, you must not companies dictate the info”.

“Soon, journalists and their sources could be sued by corporations if they reveal what those same corporations want to keep secret. Unless we react to defend the investigative work of journalists and, by extension, the enlightened information of the citizen.

Under cover of the fight against industrial espionage, the European legislator is preparing a new weapon of massive deterrence against journalism, the "business secret", the definition of which authorizes neither more nor less unprecedented censorship in Europe.

With the directive which will soon be discussed in Parliament, any company will be able to arbitrarily decide whether information of economic value to it may or may not be disclosed. In other words, with the "Business Secrets" directive, you would never have heard of the Luxleaks financial scandal, Monsanto's pesticides, the Gardasil vaccine scandal... And so on.

As our job is to reveal information of public interest, it will now be impossible for us to inform you about whole sections of the economic, social and political life of our countries. The reports of "Cash Investigation", but also other investigative programs, could certainly no longer be broadcast. »

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