France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

Post by autoexec » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:06 PM UTC

13of40 wrote: post #296

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what is "our" government? this site is worldwide..

I've (unfortunately) got a habit of accidentally assuming forums are "in the US". I think I would put it down to a couple of things: 1. Most native English speakers are in the US, so the accidental assumption that someone is American is more often than not correct. 2. The internal voice that reads text to me has a generic male American accent.

Post by hiatus » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

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> The other categories are associations made by accident of birth. Just because someone says you are a Christian because you were baptized or whatever doesn't make it so. Religion is just as much a choice as an occupation.

> Just because someone says you are a Christian because you were baptized or whatever doesn't make it so. Religion is just as much a choice as an occupation. Hard disagree here. I didn't choose to be born to parents of a fundamental baptist cult. I didn't choose to be subjected to physical abuse in the name of that religion, or to be sent to seminars ingraining deeply harmful ideas about self and the roles of men/wom…

Post by hellojesus » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 9:12 PM UTC

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But the NSA has been proven to be doing it without warrant, at will, and then lying to Congress and the American people about doing it, and then saying it was a good thing they did the thing they said they didn't do which was also illegal that they did. It will be abused instantly.

That is a US intelligence agency, whose mission is by necessity shrouded in secrecy. They are not the French police, the work of whom typically will be presented in an open court for scrutiny.