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France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people (gazettengr.com)

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[-] Dr_Toofing@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering the same. Hopefully privacy oriented projects such as GrapheneOS can counter whatever technology they will try to implement.

[-] Jongaros@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Patriot act requires them to do so. I am gonna guess they probably will unless they want to go to federal prison.

[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Jokes on them. Run Linux phone, Android apps become useless. The PinePhones have the modem as an isolated module from the rest of the phone, connected via USB, so the modem can't do anything too invasive.

[-] Jongaros@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You can technically bypass anything. Purpose of these type of laws is not catch all to access every single information under the sun. Real goal is make it so inconvenient and damaging to people material beings that 99.99% of the people rather give up their rights, data and freedom.