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explodicle ,

Fancy French purses are about to take a new direction! Styles range from Étouffé (muffled) to Le Faraday (electromagnetic shielding).

unphazed ,

French police about to see a whole lotta dick pics.

hebiyoujo ,

I see this going very poorly very quickly. I don’t know how much longer we’re going to have a France after this, but I’m interested in seeing how this unfolds.

Aceticon ,

LIberté, Egalité, Fraternité.

SoulKeeper , (edited )
@SoulKeeper@lemmy.world avatar

Privacy and anonymity is illusion.

Miczech ,

Is this a legitimate source of news?

drahardja ,

It’s based on a syndicated news release from Agence France Presse. Here’s a direct transcription of the article from AFP: barrons.com/…/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-t…

lntl ,
@lntl@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

At least it’s happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

Munrock ,
@Munrock@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Interestingly enough I went to a lecture by a Chinese lawmaker yesterday who said the exact same thing. When it’s codified in law, you know what they can and can’t do, and what they can and can’t use in court against you. When governments just do it covertly and subvert due process, your right to privacy suffers a lot more. She didn’t have to point out what Snowden uncovered about the NSA for everyone to know what she was referring to.

ShotLine ,

A little confused. Regardless of whats legal we know what they ‘can’ do, just not whether its legal or not. What we lose by legalising it is precisely that it can be used in court as legitimate evidence.

Currently in the US everyone knows they have far less privacy from the government, or from corporations for that matter, but ill gotten info cant easily be uses in court.

IMO the really scary thing is that now the government is just buying info from data brokers where the users technically consented in some app’s TOS then using that. Its legally cleaner, and honestly probably better than info they could’ve gotten from from shadier methods.

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

France always was a weird country

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they’ve been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.

Awthatsnotright ,

The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!

Raphael ,
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

I guess NATO stopped pretending they care about free speech and democracy?

DestroyMegacorps ,

How to make your country burn faster 101

lokitkhemak ,

This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

Raphael ,
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

Macron is a NATO puppet.

Madison420 ,

Yes let’s just say buzzwords without context or reason, makes perfect sense.

Raphael ,
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

Except that not really, France could easily have another revolution when things like this happen. NATO doesn’t want any revolutions because the workers would have more power, they want corporation to hold power and wealth, as they can be controlled and sanctioned more easily.

Bushwhack ,

1984 - George Orwell tried to warn us.

CanadaPlus ,

This is bad, but that’s such an overused comparison. It can even be counterproductive because the Oceania from the books is so obviously different from the real world.

Bushwhack ,

I’m talking about the wall in their rooms though that they can use to listen in when they want, you have no private conversations.

sovietsnake ,
@sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml avatar

A rapist, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist walk into a bar.

The bartender asks “How’s the new book coming Mr. Orwell?”

Akasazh ,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Care to elaborate?

polskilumalo ,
@polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml avatar

The same book which has been funded to be spread as far as possible, all over the world by the CIA.

Classic. What a warning.

ChronoPixel ,

Wouldn’t this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

Awthatsnotright ,

This is what I’m wondering.

ErwinLottemann ,

I don’t think it does, as the GDPR does not protect ‘criminals’ or against the police using your data.

Figaro2x ,

There are exceptions for law enforcement/intelligence in GDPR. Those are particularly broad in the UK data protection act for example.

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