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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

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

This is what I'm wondering.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How to make your country burn faster 101

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

French police about to see a whole lotta dick pics.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At least it's happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

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

I see this going very poorly very quickly. I don't know how much longer we're going to have a France after this, but I'm interested in seeing how this unfolds.

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

The article does not mention, how will this be achieved technology wise? I don't know of any universal way that a government might activate these features on a person's phone. Unless network operators/phone manufacturers start installing backdoors. This does not bode well.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Ohhh my sweet summer child. Who is it that is making those phones?

Let me tell you, it's Google.

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

Fancy French purses are about to take a new direction! Styles range from Étouffé (muffled) to Le Faraday (electromagnetic shielding).

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

The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!

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

Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can't be that stupid.

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

...hold my sancerre!

-- Emmanuel Macron, probably

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

The protests are for police brutality against Minorities. Apparently the shot 17 years old kid was repeatedly hit with back of the gun which made him moves his leg away from the breaks and since it's an automatic the car started moving forward...the rest is history.

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

~~LIberté~~, ~~Egalité~~, ~~Fraternité~~.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Privacy and anonymity is illusion.

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

I am Indian. Even our douche bag of politicians will think twice before passing such legislation. Of course they will spy illegally on us but they won't pass such obvious fascist legislation.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The US has exported it's police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it's all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not every bad thing people do is the fault of the US.

The French can be proper assholes. Look up the history of Haiti and which European colonies purchased the most African slaves.

Then ask. Where did all they go?

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

France has been burning itself to the ground longer than the US has even been a thing.

[-] [email protected] 0 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".

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Is this a legitimate source of news?

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

It’s based on a syndicated news release from Agence France Presse. Here’s a direct transcription of the article from AFP: https://www.barrons.com/news/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones-b21f1f21

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess NATO stopped pretending they care about free speech and democracy?

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

... wtf is going on over there... What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I'm American, I know I can't throw stones here, but y'alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should've listened.

But, wtf?

btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We elected him as the "last rempart to the extreme right". Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.

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

Sounds like the United States.

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

I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here

Right? I'm wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You know that America just... does this, right? No bill, no law... In fact it was the first to do this at all. It's why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)

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

No, the "Patriot" Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the "Freedom" Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what's allowed.

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

It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Police, no. Homeland security? crickets

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

Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn't make it legal.

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

If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal

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

are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?

probably not, so it's practically legal; and that's kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.

Wiretap warrants aren't easy.

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

It will be like that in France as well. But once they have the tools, there will be abuse.

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

Sorry for the late response, but remind me again how many warrants the FISA court has denied?

That's an approval rate of 99.97%

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they've been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.

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