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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean how are they really going to stop FOSS? They'll ban linux and then nobody can use the internet.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 4 points 1 year ago

They don’t care about us. We sometimes forget we techies are a tiny fraction of the people they want under their boot.

If they can’t hack you they’ll get you other ways, if they want you.

Take solace that people in France and the USA aren’t falling out of windows every other day. Yet.