France Travail Denies Authority to Track Unemployed Individuals via Phone Records
France Travail, the French public employment service, has denied claims circulating on social media that it is authorized to monitor unemployed individuals' phone records to combat fraud. A TikTok video, viewed nearly 350,000 times, asserted that a new law permits France Travail to access call logs, including who was called, how frequently, and from where, potentially leading to benefit cuts for those making calls from abroad. The Ministry of Labor and Solidarity has explicitly stated that the recently enacted law against social and fiscal fraud, promulgated on June 25, does not include any provision allowing France Travail to consult the telephone records of beneficiaries. While the Senate had initially proposed an article granting such access during the parliamentary review of the bill, this provision was rejected by the government and subsequently removed from the final text. The Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, had previously deemed such measures 'excessive,' comparing them to methods used agai... 
