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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Also... what kind of argument is that? It may be dozens a year but once it is normalized with those dozens, it will become few dozens and on and on it goes.

Not a general slippery slope argument, but rather, it's clear how it makes future erosion easier.

Today: People named Joe who live at this address can be harassed freely and that's perfectly legal. Tomorrow: It's not so extreme! Look, see, we've never universally respected these rights anyway. There are cases where we legally ignored them. We're just expanding existing rules to cover more cases.

People always abuse these back doors. Always. To think otherwise is to be ridiculously naive