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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Ah yes it's ok to violate my rights, as long as a judge approves it.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

If you are, what do you have against warrants? If someone kidnapped your friend and kept them locked away in their house. Don't you want there to be a way for the police to legally rescue your friend if they have evidence on where they are being held?

because warrant or not, no one should have the power to remotely turn on your camera/mic/etc without your knowledge and monitor it.

For me it's mostly against judges. Like judges that decide that because the victim of a rape doesn't remember the rape (because it was so horrible her brain blocked it out), the perpetrator should be free.

Or those judges that decide that there's not enough proof that a billionaire-owned chemical factory polluted a river that most of the fish died, even though there's only one chemical factory on the river that could have done it.

(Those both are local issues you probably haven't heard of, though I believe you've probably heard about many such cases)

Would you want any of those judges give a warrant to someone to spy on you?