i dont like that…
Well I think France gonna need some more buildings on fire. When will they learn.
we are going through a very authoritarian drift right now. Flashballs used to be exclusively used against terrorists, hostage situations : 19 000 were fired during the yellow jjackets crisis and they’re now basic police equipment. Drone usage is increasing, the government bought 90 armored personnel carriers with multiple grenade launchers exclusively for riot control… and now the phone spying.
edited to add : they’re also starting to qualify any protesters as “terrorists”. Climate activists planning to disassemble an inanimate, illegally-built, ecocidal infrastructure ? they get the eco-terrorist tag.
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Does it not strike you in the least that actions like this are counterproductive? They provide an excuse the many people will readily accept. Violence is the language of the state and they speak it better than you. They know how to respond to it.
Funny! In America it is against our constitution but we allow the NSA to do it because when we protest we get killed, arrested or our lives ruined.
I protested the illegal separation and detention of children at the border. It was literal torture. The government later found that their own actions were illegal. In the meantime, I was arrested and beaten and on bail conditions for over 6 months before being found not guilty. The officers who beat me were given immunity. They decided not to keep the tapes at the facility after we requested they keep them because of the assault.
I am a disabled veteran and was a career federal employee.
This is America.
Exemption for MPs. If it is fine, why are they making exceptions for themselves?!
This is terrifying enough of a privacy invasion at the nation-state level. It’s catastrophic to give police this authority and capability. If this comes to the U.S., we are fucking doomed.
its already the case in the US. you internet provoder watch every of your step. just try download a torrent.
Yes, our internet providers and mobile providers are in bed with the NSA, CIA, FBI, DOD, NIS and probably many other 3 letter agencies. But those aren’t the almost wholly unregulated Police of america staffed by literal gang-members in some jurisdictions. At least today that data is (ostensibly) behind a warrant.
@massacre @LightDelaBlue personally, I think we’re already fucked: https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279 😩😭
Maybe a dumb question, but how the hell would they access my camera/geolocation etc? On e.g. a stock pixel device, would the french police have an actual backdoor through google? Or would it be through compromised shitty apps (like the chat app that was being used by criminals a while back, which was actually made by the police)?
