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

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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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[-] SafetyGoggles@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

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".

[-] 8bitguy@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones_6044269_7.html

[-] electrophic@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

And sensitive professions including doctors, journalists, lawyers, judges and MPs would not be legitimate targets.

Rules for thee and not for me, unsurprisingly.

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