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France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
(www.techradar.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
As far as I know, police cannot activate your phone's camera or microphone to spy on you in the US, even with a warrant. Do you know of something that says otherwise?
Then you know wrong. The FBI has been doing it for as long as phones have had cameras.
Article from 2013, and even then it wasn’t new: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog