France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, 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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A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

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Wonder if Google, Apple, or SoC makera are asked or secretly mandated to leave certain backdoors in. I know mobile providers have quite a bit they can see on their end.

It's a good thing we're always presented with two choices for everything, like mobile OS's, to control our choices like we're toddlers.

They don't really need to, the company making Pegasus is very very skilled, they however get paid for that as well, its absolutely not worth it for a normal person usually.

Mobile operators have baseband which is why we have modem isolation. And some of us can see quite a bit on our end, too.