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France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people (gazettengr.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Patriot act requires them to do so. I am gonna guess they probably will unless they want to go to federal prison.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes on them. Run Linux phone, Android apps become useless. The PinePhones have the modem as an isolated module from the rest of the phone, connected via USB, so the modem can't do anything too invasive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can technically bypass anything. Purpose of these type of laws is not catch all to access every single information under the sun. Real goal is make it so inconvenient and damaging to people material beings that 99.99% of the people rather give up their rights, data and freedom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can technically bypass anything

Not if it's disabled in hardware. This is what PinePhones have:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You're right. I hadn't even checked where GrapheneOS was based, that's bad.