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France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones (www.techradar.com)

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VPN services and other security tools won't be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What's next for France's justice reform bill?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you know wrong. The FBI has been doing it for as long as phones have had cameras.

Article from 2013, and even then it wasn’t new: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thde only new thing is the technology allowing them to better spy on us.