Wouldn't this breach multiple EU privacy laws?
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.
How to make your country burn faster 101
This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?
Macron is a NATO puppet.
Yes let's just say buzzwords without context or reason, makes perfect sense.
The US has exported it's police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it's all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖
Not every bad thing people do is the fault of the US.
The French can be proper assholes. Look up the history of Haiti and which European colonies purchased the most African slaves.
Then ask. Where did all they go?
Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can't be that stupid.
...hold my sancerre!
-- Emmanuel Macron, probably
While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they've been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.
... wtf is going on over there... What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I'm American, I know I can't throw stones here, but y'alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should've listened.
But, wtf?
btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.
We elected him as the "last rempart to the extreme right". Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.
Lmao bait and switch
More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.
I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here
Right? I'm wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF
You know that America just... does this, right? No bill, no law... In fact it was the first to do this at all. It's why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)
It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
Police, no. Homeland security? crickets
Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn't make it legal.
are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?
probably not, so it's practically legal; and that's kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case
No, the "Patriot" Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the "Freedom" Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what's allowed.
It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.
Wiretap warrants aren't easy.
Sorry for the late response, but remind me again how many warrants the FISA court has denied?
That's an approval rate of 99.97%
It will be like that in France as well. But once they have the tools, there will be abuse.