French Police about to comb through hundreds of terabytes of Porn

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.

I wonder how some of these activities would come across if they were accompanied with a legal requirement to publish the numbers and a follow-on public vote to keep it or not. How many times was it used? How many convictions per use? How many sentences were 5+ years? How many failures to prosecute?

Catching an actual terrorist is a good thing, but not at the expense of hiding bad actors from the people paying taxes. Show the people, transparently, it’s doing what you say it will, or stop.

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)?

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.

During a debate on Wednesday, MPs in President Emmanuel Macron’s camp inserted an amendment limiting the use of remote spying to “when justified by the nature and seriousness of the crime” and “for a strictly proportional duration.”

Are “nature and seriousness” defined in an objective or concrete way? And for a proportional duration to what?

if you want more detail (from linus)

Exemption for MPs. If it is fine, why are they making exceptions for themselves?!

The only way to defend against that is to be extremely mindful of what apps you install. The police will need a backdoor to activate the spybug, this will come in the form of an app that a large amount of people install willingly and are relying on.

In China the police can get immediate and total access to any citizens’ phone my simply scanning an ID (driver license, etc). This is probably a feature built into WeChat or another app that all Chinese people are relying on.

Is this new law allowing the police to go to carrier companies and demanding to know the phone numbers of people near the riots, or is this closer to the police using your camera without your permission? I would have thought security restrictions on devices would have blocked such intrusive ability.

Insanity

Well I think France gonna need some more buildings on fire. When will they learn.