France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people
France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people
A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.
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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.
You can technically bypass anything. Purpose of these type of laws is not catch all to access every single information under the sun. Real goal is make it so inconvenient and damaging to people material beings that 99.99% of the people rather give up their rights, data and freedom.
You can technically bypass anything
Not if it's disabled in hardware. This is what PinePhones have:
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.