Einar to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoFrance passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on peoplegazettengr.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1678arrow-down18cross-posted to: privacyguides@lemmy.oneworldnews@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldintelligence@lemmy.mlworld@lemmy.worldprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.worldnews@beehaw.org
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minus-square@AreYouNotEntertained@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoIt is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
minus-square@foggenbooty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoPolice, no. Homeland security? crickets
minus-squarepipslinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoStill no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.
minus-square@Zron@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoIf I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal
minus-squarearcturuslinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoare they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out? probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case
It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
Police, no. Homeland security? crickets
Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.
If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal
are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?
probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case