France set to allow police to spy through phones
www.lemonde.fr
French lawmakers agreed to a justice reform bill that includes a provision granting police the power to get suspects' geolocation through phones and other devices.

i dont like that…

  • akiяa@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “We’re far away from the totalitarianism of 1984,” George Orwell’s novel about a society under total surveillance, Dupond-Moretti said. “People’s lives will be saved” by the law, he added.

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The establishment’s power will be saved, I think he means.

      In the minds of tyrants, only the rich qualify as “people”. Everyone else is person-shaped livestock.

      • akiяa@pawb.socialEnglish
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        1 year ago

        i think someone is afraid of change and lives by the rule of

        we MUST defend the status-quo. at all cost!

        because in their minds, nothing could be better, and every change is inconvience to them

    • Senil888@pawb.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Mmhm. Suuure they will. I see no way in which this power could be abused at all. Clearly this is a harmless ability to snoop in on people without their consent.