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

gazettengr.com 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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That's a good reason to riot.
The 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.
Guess degoogled phones will soon be illegal then?
How is this even feasible on Android or iPhones? Are they going to force everyone to download Team Viewer or something?
At 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.
The whole world is going to shit
The 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.
There is so much news like this coming from France lately. What is going on over there?
France, yall okay with this?
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".
This article doesn't link to a single primary source.
I mean how are they really going to stop FOSS? They'll ban linux and then nobody can use the internet.
Nice society we live in. All those sci fi movies was just giving ideas for the people who wants everyone to be under their boot.
"Liberal left" - suuuuure
The road to fascist hell is paved with liberal good intentions
So if you dont use free software and live in France, bye bye any and all digital privacy?
Ok what the fuck? New protests this weekend I guess?
Deploy the 3300s. Excellent brick for throwing too
at 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
Can someone please explain how will this work?
Better to not bring your phone during protests anyways.
France deserve as much shit as Hungary and Poland get within the EU tbh

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