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?
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?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog
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.