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France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

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Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

#31

> "[...] which would be reserved for cases of terrorism, delinquency and organized crime." Because of course it will

They're already using anti terrorism era law against protests &co

It's a perpetual "state of emergency" for a decade+ now

Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

#32
post #22

> "[...] which would be reserved for cases of terrorism, delinquency and organized crime." Because of course it will

Ah, yes delinquency, there's that umbrella term we were looking for.

Among the delinquent, it's only reserved for the subset who are problematic.

Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

#34

As 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.…

Parliament certainly didn't stop Macron from pushing threw the pension reform against the will of virtually everyone. It's a pity that most of the media doesn't cover the legitimate concerns of the french population.

The media was full of the concerns of the french population about the pension reform.

Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

#35

As 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.…

Parliament certainly didn't stop Macron from pushing threw the pension reform against the will of virtually everyone. It's a pity that most of the media doesn't cover the legitimate concerns of the french population.

The french population is indeed concerned by the increasing of the pension age, but not concerned at all with the price paid by their own children for not increasing it. So I wouldn't call the concerns of the population necessarily legitimate, as present and pressing as they might be.

Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

#36

> "[...] which would be reserved for cases of terrorism, delinquency and organized crime." Because of course it will

Delinquency? As in schoolchildren? Or is that a translation thing?

Delinquency is probably translated from délinquance, which is generally understood to mean thuggery/small crimes.

Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

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post #14
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For now.

Wire tapping has been approved this way for ages the 'for now' trope is getting old, because in some countries laws do work.

Edward Snowden is raising his hand, it seems he has something to add to the discussion

Re: France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

#39
post #18

So, how do they plan on activating cameras/microphones? Backdoor?

Have you heard of hacking? Most police forces have offensive hacking teams by now, it's not much of a secret. Also there are some quite famous tools that aid in this.

The camera and microphone of a modern smartphone are not trivial to hack. I highly doubt a local government would have the resources to even consider having such teams.
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