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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.
I don't think it does, as the GDPR does not protect 'criminals' or against the police using your data.
~~LIberté~~, ~~Egalité~~, ~~Fraternité~~.
How to make your country burn faster 101
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.
Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can't be that stupid.
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.
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Privacy and anonymity is illusion.
This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?
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At least it's happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.
Interestingly enough I went to a lecture by a Chinese lawmaker yesterday who said the exact same thing. When it's codified in law, you know what they can and can't do, and what they can and can't use in court against you. When governments just do it covertly and subvert due process, your right to privacy suffers a lot more. She didn't have to point out what Snowden uncovered about the NSA for everyone to know what she was referring to.
A little confused. Regardless of whats legal we know what they 'can' do, just not whether its legal or not. What we lose by legalising it is precisely that it can be used in court as legitimate evidence.
Currently in the US everyone knows they have far less privacy from the government, or from corporations for that matter, but ill gotten info cant easily be uses in court.
IMO the really scary thing is that now the government is just buying info from data brokers where the users technically consented in some app's TOS then using that. Its legally cleaner, and honestly probably better than info they could've gotten from from shadier methods.
French police about to see a whole lotta dick pics.
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.
I'm wondering the same. Hopefully privacy oriented projects such as GrapheneOS can counter whatever technology they will try to implement.
Patriot act requires them to do so. I am gonna guess they probably will unless they want to go to federal prison.
Jokes on them. Run Linux phone, Android apps become useless. The PinePhones have the modem as an isolated module from the rest of the phone, connected via USB, so the modem can't do anything too invasive.
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It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.
... 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.
They have proportional representation and a ton of parties. It's a completely different kind of suck. Although I guess they also are presidential.
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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
Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn't make it legal.
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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.
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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
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