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World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people

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France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people

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World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, 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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Wouldn’t this breach multiple EU privacy laws?
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  This is what I’m wondering.
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  There are exceptions for law enforcement/intelligence in GDPR. Those are particularly broad in the UK data protection act for example.

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