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.

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.

Guess degoogled phones with custom OSes will soon be illegal then?

France, yall okay with this?

@nargacu83@lemmy.world
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I can’t even reconize my country values for the past few months and yet it’s only the beginning for the current government, we still have 4 years to go with Macron. Who knows what ideas they hold for the future.

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I’d say this is worth another riot.

So if you dont use free software and live in France, bye bye any and all digital privacy?

“Liberal left” - suuuuure

How is this even feasible on Android or iPhones? Are they going to force everyone to download Team Viewer or something?

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Oh my sweet summer child

Everyone causally saying the government can just do it with Pegasus is ignoring the fact that Pegasus itself is an exploit. It is a hack, to breach your personal device. If I used the same methods to get into a bank’s systems it would be a violation of the law. Same if I created this software and gave it to you for the same purpose. Ask yourselves why it would be permissible to sell this software then commercially? And, why is it permissible for the government to use it to hack your own devices. Let’s not just brush over this discussion like it’s nothing.

Nobody ignores the fact that government is doing something illegal when the conversation about their rampant spying happens. You may just be late to the party. We all know it’s illegal, unethical, and immoral. It basically comes down to this:

What are you going to do about it?

We’re living in objectively dystopian times. Our government does illegal shit literally all the time and gets away with it.

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.

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That’s a good reason to riot.

Leclipse
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Can someone please explain how will this work?

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.

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Mostly boomers who don’t understand tech

@moustique@lemmy.world
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That’s an erroneous understanding of our era. The younger generations are gods at liking and commenting on social networks, but they just don’t care about privacy. They flock like birds to litteral spyware just for a quick meme fix.

Not everything you think is wrong has to do exclusively with boomers.

I think it’s a bit of A and a bit of B. Boomers and younger gens have both embraced the rampant violation of privacy, particularly in the US.

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