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

submitted 3 years ago by sibloure@beehaw.org to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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Does anyone know how this even works? Is the technology for this already in place?

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

submitted 3 years ago by Sleo@lemmy.ca to c/worldnews@sh.itjust.works

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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people. The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering laptops, cars and other connected devices. (gazettengr.com)

submitted 3 years ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

submitted 3 years ago by webdoodle@lemmy.ml to c/intelligence@lemmy.ml

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

submitted 3 years ago by Rebelappliance@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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

submitted 3 years ago by Kata1yst@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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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.

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

submitted 3 years ago by Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world to c/joeroganexperience@lemmy.world

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

submitted 3 years ago by huf@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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oh wait never mind, it's france.

anyway, china bad, good thing the west is accountable to its citizens at least.

[HN] France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone (gazettengr.com)

submitted 3 years ago by irradiated@radiation.party [M, B] to c/technews@radiation.party

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[ comments | sourced from HackerNews ]

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

submitted 3 years ago by haxor@derp.foo [M, B] to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.