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France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people(gazettengr.com)

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AreYouNotEntertained@lemmy.world
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It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…

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foggenbooty@lemmy.world
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Police, no. Homeland security? crickets

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pips@lemmy.film
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Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.

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Zron@lemmy.world
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If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal

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arcturus@lemmy.world
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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

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