France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
VPN services and other security tools won't be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What's next for France's justice reform bill?
VPN services and other security tools won't be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What's next for France's justice reform bill?
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France is really at a point of breaking. This is especially sad since France was the de facto leader of libre/foss movement in Europe.
Most other countries already have these sort of laws. In the US you’d just need a warrant from a Judge - which is laughably easy, especially with FISA warrants.
The US really is not the standard any country should set for themselves
As far as I know, police cannot activate your phone's camera or microphone to spy on you in the US, even with a warrant. Do you know of something that says otherwise?
The ANT catalog[a] (or TAO catalog) is a classified product catalog by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) ... DROPOUTJEEP .... "A software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted."
Then you know wrong. The FBI has been doing it for as long as phones have had cameras.
Article from 2013, and even then it wasn’t new: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
Thde only new thing is the technology allowing them to better spy on us.