France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
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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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.
That's a good reason to riot.
92 0 ReplyThe US federal government has been doing this since the 00's. Snowden exposed them and the public responded with hatred towards Snowden. Unfortunately the average citizen just doesn't seem to care.
84 0 ReplyHow is this even feasible on Android or iPhones? Are they going to force everyone to download Team Viewer or something?
78 0 ReplyGuess degoogled phones with custom OSes will soon be illegal then?
78 0 ReplyThe whole world is going to shit
48 0 ReplyAt least they have the decency to tell you they are doing it.
In the US it took Snowden to leak this to the public that the government has been doing it for ages behind their backs.46 0 ReplyThere is so much news like this coming from France lately. What is going on over there?
37 0 ReplyThe oppression will continue until revolt stops!
Things didn’t go very well for Ceaușescu, so I’m sure Macron won’t repeat any of the same screwups.
37 0 ReplyFrance, yall okay with this?
27 0 ReplyA Google search for "France phone camera" only gives this posted link and dailymail.co.uk article, both of which are not really trustworthy sources, IMO.
So I'm gonna go with "this is very possibly fake news".
22 0 Reply"Liberal left" - suuuuure
12 0 ReplyThis article doesn't link to a single primary source.
10 0 ReplyI mean how are they really going to stop FOSS? They'll ban linux and then nobody can use the internet.
8 0 ReplyNice society we live in. All those sci fi movies was just giving ideas for the people who wants everyone to be under their boot.
7 0 ReplyThe road to fascist hell is paved with liberal good intentions
5 0 ReplyDeploy the 3300s. Excellent brick for throwing too
4 0 ReplySo if you dont use free software and live in France, bye bye any and all digital privacy?
3 0 ReplyOk what the fuck? New protests this weekend I guess?
3 0 ReplyBetter to not bring your phone during protests anyways.
2 0 ReplyFrance deserve as much shit as Hungary and Poland get within the EU tbh
2 0 Replyat 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
2 0 ReplyCan someone please explain how will this work?
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