The French Assembly (the lower house of the French Parliament) has passed a controversial bill that will de facto enable the police to surveil suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphones and GPS location systems on phones and other devices.
In France they are putting out fires with gasoline. So far in 2023, the largest EU country has seen massive public brawls over pension reforms, then came the mass civic unrests with literal fires and lootings.
Now the French Assembly has passed a controversial bill that will de facto enable the police to surveil suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphones and GPS location systems on phones and other devices. Earlier version of the bill passed the Senate, and in order to become a law, it’s required to get legislative body’s approval.
Before turning a suspect’s camera from a distance, the law enforcement agents will have to get approval from a judge . The newly amended bill is not to be used against journalists, lawyers and some other professions , but nevertheless, these assurances are met with high skepticism from all sides of the public life in France.
Despite these guarantees, civil liberties activists are uneased and are attacking the bill on grounds of possible privacy abuse. Digital rights group La Quadrature du Net points out that security policies of that sort do have a history of expanding to less serious crimes. The main issue, of course, is that a postulate like ‘serious crime’ could be easily abused and get out of hand.
Éric Dupond-Moretti, the French Justice Minister, tried to calm down the concerned parties, stating that these new powers are to be used in ‘dozens of cases per year’, and that parallels between this bill and the dystopian surveillance state of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ are not to be drawn.In mid-2021, a huge tech scandal broke out all over the world and overtook the headlines.
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