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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can technically bypass anything. Purpose of these type of laws is not catch all to access every single information under the sun. Real goal is make it so inconvenient and damaging to people material beings that 99.99% of the people rather give up their rights, data and freedom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can technically bypass anything

Not if it's disabled in hardware. This is what PinePhones have: