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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at least they're honest about it

i'd imagine they have the same ability here in the states they're just gonna advertise the fact

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Patriot act + 2008 FISA Amendments Act.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

It's not exactly a secret anymore, it's just that no one seems to care.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Media and normie stream are cool with it since they got nothing to hide.

Rest of us just pretend that using encrypted messengers do something which they do against bulk data collection but once they want your shit, they just compromise you device. So it is really more of a political statement at this point rather than real tool.