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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
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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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[–] IAccidentallyCame@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder if Google, Apple, or SoC makera are asked or secretly mandated to leave certain backdoors in. I know mobile providers have quite a bit they can see on their end.

It's a good thing we're always presented with two choices for everything, like mobile OS's, to control our choices like we're toddlers.

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

They don't really need to, the company making Pegasus is very very skilled, they however get paid for that as well, its absolutely not worth it for a normal person usually.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mobile operators have baseband which is why we have modem isolation. And some of us can see quite a bit on our end, too.