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.
You’re right. I hadn’t even checked where GrapheneOS was based, that’s bad.
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 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖
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?
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”.
It’s very real, here are two legit sources in french:
You can use the service of your choice to translate them if you don’t understand french.
Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can’t be that stupid.
…hold my sancerre!
– Emmanuel Macron, probably
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.
… wtf is going on over there… What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here, but y’alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should’ve listened.
But, wtf?
btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.
We elected him as the “last rempart to the extreme right”. Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.
I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here
Right? I’m wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF
You know that America just… does this, right? No bill, no law… In fact it was the first to do this at all. It’s why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)
No, the “Patriot” Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the “Freedom” Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what’s allowed.
It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
Police, no. Homeland security? crickets
Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.
are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?
probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case
It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.
Wiretap warrants aren’t easy.
Sorry for the late response, but remind me again how many warrants the FISA court has denied?
That’s an approval rate of 99.97%
It will be like that in France as well. But once they have the tools, there will be abuse.
The last election was a shitshow.
As usual, the younger generation didn’t bother voting, and the older one voted en masse for conservative candidates because they are those our media push for, while at the same time slandering progressive ones.
In the election runoff, we had the choice between an openly fascist candidate from a party literally founded by former Nazis, and a “light fascist” one that people were seeing as the lesser evil. Though it’s pretty obvious now that his fascism isn’t so light (he openly admires Petain, a french leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany), and I hope people will remember that for the next election and understand that voting for a democratic candidate in the first turn if very important.
Weird how this sounds alot like what’s happening in the US. Almost like fascism is encroaching all acrost the world as it crumbles.
If people get out and fucking vote like it’s your last chance, we can get some sanity.
Oh? Should people vote for the lesser of two evils? Because that’s your only choice if you continue to insist you can vote your way out of this.
Absofreakinglutely!
There will never be a perfect candidate. This is politics.
Well then enjoy voting for Hitler (D) because that’s what you are going to get.
Yeah, it’s happening all over western liberal democracies. Inflation is going crazy and wealth inequalities are growing at an alarming rate. Because of that, people in power are afraid of a popular uprising, and they would rather see fascists rise to power and protect capitalism, than an economical shift to the left and lose some of their wealth.
It happened many times before. The more commonly known examples being:
- Prominent industrialists and agricultural landowners providing financial support to Mussolini’s party because they feared the rise of socialism, and saw in him a means to counter it.
- German industrialists who were fearful of the rise of the Communist Party and provided financial support to the Nazi party.
- Spanish landowners and businessmen who were alarmed by the social and economic reforms of the Second Spanish Republic and supported Franco’s rise to power.
History tends to repeat itself.
