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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.)

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It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.

Wiretap warrants aren’t easy.

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It will be like that in France as well. But once they have the tools, there will be abuse.

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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%

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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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8 points

Police, no. Homeland security? crickets

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10 points

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

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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.

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The movie citizen four did an excellent job detailing different ways a government (in this case the united states) can do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour

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