Wouldn’t this breach multiple EU privacy laws?
There are exceptions for law enforcement/intelligence in GDPR. Those are particularly broad in the UK data protection act for example.
This is what I’m wondering.
… 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.
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.
Lmao bait and switch
More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.
Sounds like the United States.
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
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.)
It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
Police, no. Homeland security? crickets
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.
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.
Cell carriers can already push apps to your device.
I assume/hope this isn’t true if you bought the phone outside a contract?
Ohhh my sweet summer child. Who is it that is making those phones?
Let me tell you, it’s Google.
This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?
Macron is a NATO puppet.
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French police about to see a whole lotta dick pics.
How to make your country burn faster 101
LIberté,Egalité,Fraternité.Privacy and anonymity is illusion.
It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.
The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!
Is this a legitimate source of news?
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
that’d be the point I’d forgo smartphones entirely
I guess NATO stopped pretending they care about free speech and democracy?
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.
