France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people

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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
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It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…

Police, no. Homeland security? crickets

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

If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal