… 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.
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.
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
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%
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
Wouldn’t this breach multiple EU privacy laws?
This is what I’m wondering.
I don’t think it does, as the GDPR does not protect ‘criminals’ or against the police using your data.
There are exceptions for law enforcement/intelligence in GDPR. Those are particularly broad in the UK data protection act for example.
How to make your country burn faster 101
It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.
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.
1984 - George Orwell tried to warn us.
A rapist, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist walk into a bar.
The bartender asks “How’s the new book coming Mr. Orwell?”
The same book which has been funded to be spread as far as possible, all over the world by the CIA.
Classic. What a warning.
The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!
Privacy and anonymity is illusion.
Is this a legitimate source of news?
It’s based on a syndicated news release from Agence France Presse. Here’s a direct transcription of the article from AFP: https://www.barrons.com/news/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones-b21f1f21
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.
LIberté,Egalité,Fraternité.French police about to see a whole lotta dick pics.
France always was a weird country
I guess NATO stopped pretending they care about free speech and democracy?
that’d be the point I’d forgo smartphones entirely
