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Wi-Fi cannot be deployed everywhere…
Although Wi-Fi waves are less powerful than telephone network waves, they cannot be emitted in all places.
As a precautionary measure, the law on exposure to electromagnetic waves* prohibits the presence of Wi-Fi in places where children are cared for (nurseries or kindergartens) and in elementary school, a device must allow the deactivation of Wi-Fi.
The presence of Wi-Fi must be signaled…
In public areas, the presence of Wi-Fi networks must be posted at the entrance of these areas.
The user must be identified
Leaving one’s Internet access open to all users without the possibility to identify them is against the law.
The authorities must be able to know who is using the Wi-Fi, which means that identification systems must be put in place, for example for Wi-Fi access offered to visitors.
The operator must provide electronic data on request…
The French Post and Electronic Communications Code stipulates that the operator offering Wi-Fi must collect certain information, such as the time of connection, duration, etc.
These obligations have been completed by the military programming law and the law on intelligence, introducing new channels of data communication with the authorities in charge of public security. Some data, such as the identity of users, must be kept or transmitted to government services in two cases: judicial requisitions and administrative requests.
And beware. With the tightening of regulations, the lack of response from an operator is no longer acceptable.
“A typical WiFi terminal has a maximum isotropic power of 100 mW.
This is the same order of magnitude as the base station of a domestic wireless phone (DECT), and ten thousand times less than a microwave oven, which uses the same frequency,” explains Gilles Dixsaut, head of the new technologies unit at Afsset.
When you are 20 cm from the terminal Wifi, exposure is 0.2 W / m2, one twentieth of the limit value. At 50 cm, we fall to 0.03 W/m2, “well below the limit value of exposure,” says Gilles Dixsaut.
“For comparison, a domestic wireless phone base exposes us at least as much to permanent radiation whose frequency is close,” he continues. And unlike mobiles, “we know the frequency used by Wi-Fi. It was studied in depth about twenty years ago, for the microwaves.
The site of the AFSSET (French Agency for Environmental and Occupational Health Safety) does not give any information on the dangers of WiFi.