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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The US federal government has been doing this since the 00's. Snowden exposed them and the public responded with hatred towards Snowden. Unfortunately the average citizen just doesn't seem to care.

I don’t think the majority of people KNOW what Snowden was even trying to tell them. I remember when this came out and the news media was clutching their pearls over the act of leaking information rather than discussing the contents. I’m still learning about what was contained in those leaks to this day. It is so heavily propagandized that we need a new word for it.

Now those same people are saying it's no big deal that Donnie kept all the no-no papers.

Mostly boomers who don't understand tech

That’s an erroneous understanding of our era. The younger generations are gods at liking and commenting on social networks, but they just don’t care about privacy. They flock like birds to litteral spyware just for a quick meme fix.

Not everything you think is wrong has to do exclusively with boomers.

I think it's a bit of A and a bit of B. Boomers and younger gens have both embraced the rampant violation of privacy, particularly in the US.

Not public, propaganda. The public result was confusion and ultimately apathy.