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Einar ( original_reader@lemmy.ml )  to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people

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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
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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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  • lokitkhemak ( lokitkhemak@programming.dev ) 
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    This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

  • DestroyMegacorps ( DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml ) 
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    How to make your country burn faster 101

  • Mongostein ( Mongostein@lemmy.ca ) 
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    It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.

  • SafetyGoggles ( SafetyGoggles@feddit.de ) 
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    A 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”.

    • Jack ( Jack@lemmy.ca ) 
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      https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones_6044269_7.html

  • alliswell33  ( alliswell33@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    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 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

    • NuMetalAlchemist ( NuMetalAlchemist@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      France has been burning itself to the ground longer than the US has even been a thing.

  • Dr_Toofing ( Dr_Toofing@programming.dev ) 
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    The article does not mention, how will this be achieved technology wise? I don’t know of any universal way that a government might activate these features on a person’s phone. Unless network operators/phone manufacturers start installing backdoors. This does not bode well.

  • UnfortunateDoorHinge ( UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone ) 
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    Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can’t be that stupid.

    • Diabolo96 ( Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 
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      The protests are for police brutality against Minorities. Apparently the shot 17 years old kid was repeatedly hit with back of the gun which made him moves his leg away from the breaks and since it’s an automatic the car started moving forward…the rest is history.

    • UpperBroccoli ( UpperBroccoli@feddit.de ) 
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      …hold my sancerre!

      – Emmanuel Macron, probably

  • beard__hunter ( beard__hunter@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) B
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    I am Indian. Even our douche bag of politicians will think twice before passing such legislation. Of course they will spy illegally on us but they won’t pass such obvious fascist legislation.

  • lntl ( lntl@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    At least it’s happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

  • Miczech ( Miczech@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Is this a legitimate source of news?

  • theplan ( hebiyoujo@tucson.social ) 
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    I see this going very poorly very quickly. I don’t know how much longer we’re going to have a France after this, but I’m interested in seeing how this unfolds.

  • ebits21 ( ebits21@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Ugh.

  • explodicle ( explodicle@local106.com ) 
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    Fancy French purses are about to take a new direction! Styles range from Étouffé (muffled) to Le Faraday (electromagnetic shielding).

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