France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
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Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
#2Do current smart phones support this?
I can't imagine Apple being too keen on allowing this sort of thing. No idea about Android
Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
#3Do current smart phones support this? I can't imagine Apple being too keen on allowing this sort of thing. No idea about Android
I recently saw a green dot on the right corner during camera usage on android. Probably a (new) feature of android.
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#4This is apparently with the approval of a judge (though that's not always meaningful), when targeting crimes that would lead to 10 years imprisonment at least.
Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
#5Smart phone makers do not support this in their software (i.e. iOS does not provide some police spy dashboard), but there are many spyware-as-a-service providers like NSO Group (maker of the Pegasus spyware) that buy exploits and build a turnkey surveillance product. This bill simply provides a legal framework for LE to use such tools against French citizens.
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#6All that will happen is criminals will just get good at opsec. This is downward selective pressure. Nature will respond.
Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
#7Do current smart phones support this? I can't imagine Apple being too keen on allowing this sort of thing. No idea about Android
I recently saw a green dot on the right corner during camera usage on android. Probably a (new) feature of android.
The green dot is meant as a privacy indicator - it tells you when something (camera, maybe mic?) is on. It doesn't relate to "remote" activation, and presumably would turn on in all circumstances.
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#8This is apparently with the approval of a judge (though that's not always meaningful), when targeting crimes that would lead to 10 years imprisonment at least.
For now.
Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
#9> "[...] which would be reserved for cases of terrorism, delinquency and organized crime."
Because of course it will
Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones
#10As far as I know, the title is wrong, only the senate approved the bill. That's not enough for France to legalize anything
The way it works in France is there's two chambers of parliament, the senate and the Assemblée nationale (that I translate to "the parliament"). Unless the law changes something in the constitution, the senate is just there to advise the parliament. If they'd voted no, it wouldn't have mattered.
It is up to the parliament to vote laws into effect
But the neolib right, the far-right and the conservative right compose >60% of the parliament so there's no need to hold your horses too much. For the retirement law, they didn't have the support of the far-right. Since I don't think the far-right is going to suddenly find themselves privacy lovers I think we can safely assume it'll go through