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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Wouldn't this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

There are exceptions for law enforcement/intelligence in GDPR. Those are particularly broad in the UK data protection act for example.