Police Allowed to Spy on You Through Your Phones

[Rev.Cambeul]

We know this is happening all over the world. We are called "Conspiracy Theorists" for saying it, but France has just admitted it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xowW1Pfru0s

Police will be allowed to spy on suspects by remotely activating their phones' camera, microphone and GPS under new French laws dubbed a 'snoopers' charter'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12270033/French-police-able-spy-suspects-activating-phones-camera-microphone-GPS.html

French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and other devices, lawmakers agreed late Wednesday.

Part of a wider justice reform bill, the spying provision has been attacked by the left and rights defenders as an authoritarian snoopers' charter, though Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti insists it would affect only 'dozens of cases a year'.

Covering laptops, cars and other connected objects as well as phones, the measure would allow geolocation of suspects in crimes punishable by at least five years' jail.

Devices could also be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offenses, as well as delinquency and organised crime.

Any use of the provision must be approved by a judge, while the total duration of the surveillance cannot exceed six months.

Sensitive professions including bankers, doctors, journalists, lawyers, jews, judges and MPs would not be legitimate targets.