unphazed,

French police about to see a whole lotta dick pics.

Aceticon,

LIberté, Egalité, Fraternité.

SoulKeeper,
@SoulKeeper@lemmy.world avatar

Privacy and anonymity is illusion.

Miczech,

Is this a legitimate source of news?

drahardja,

It’s based on a syndicated news release from Agence France Presse. Here’s a direct transcription of the article from AFP: barrons.com/…/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-t…

lntl,
@lntl@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

At least it’s happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

kokesh,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

France always was a weird country

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they’ve been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.

Awthatsnotright,

The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!

Raphael,
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

I guess NATO stopped pretending they care about free speech and democracy?

DestroyMegacorps,

How to make your country burn faster 101

Bushwhack,

1984 - George Orwell tried to warn us.

CanadaPlus,

This is bad, but that’s such an overused comparison. It can even be counterproductive because the Oceania from the books is so obviously different from the real world.

Bushwhack,

I’m talking about the wall in their rooms though that they can use to listen in when they want, you have no private conversations.

ChronoPixel,

Wouldn’t this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

Awthatsnotright,

This is what I’m wondering.

ErwinLottemann,

I don’t think it does, as the GDPR does not protect ‘criminals’ or against the police using your data.

Figaro2x,

There are exceptions for law enforcement/intelligence in GDPR. Those are particularly broad in the UK data protection act for example.

alliswell33,

The US has exported it’s police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it’s all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

RestrictedAccount,

Not every bad thing people do is the fault of the US.

The French can be proper assholes. Look up the history of Haiti and which European colonies purchased the most African slaves.

Then ask. Where did all they go?

average650,
@average650@lemmy.world avatar

Recently the French police seem to be worse.

NuMetalAlchemist,

France has been burning itself to the ground longer than the US has even been a thing.

SafetyGoggles,

A Google search for “France phone camera” only gives this posted link and dailymail.co.uk article, both of which are not really trustworthy sources, IMO.

So I’m gonna go with “this is very possibly fake news”.

Pili,

It’s very real, here are two legit sources in french:

francetvinfo.fr/…/le-senat-donne-son-feu-vert-a-l…

rtl.fr/…/loi-justice-l-activation-a-distance-des-…

You can use the service of your choice to translate them if you don’t understand french.

Jack,

lemonde.fr/…/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-th…

downpunxx,

that’d be the point I’d forgo smartphones entirely

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