{"id":39996,"date":"2023-07-07T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39996"},"modified":"2024-11-08T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:32:50","slug":"french-bill-to-allow-police-to-commandeer-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/07\/french-bill-to-allow-police-to-commandeer-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"French Bill to Allow Police to Commandeer Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people\/\">Tosin Ajuwon<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36616037\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36626966\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36621757\">3<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people\/\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offences, as well as delinquency and organised crime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I hope that Tim Cook will have a statement about whether this is possible with Apple devices. Has Apple has been asked to assist or has it been done via exploits? Edward Snowden has mentioned stuff like this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-34444233\">before<\/a>, but I don&rsquo;t recall seeing specifics about which devices were affected.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/google-canadian-news-removal\/\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/meta-c-18\/\">Meta<\/a> have proactively announced that they will block links to Canadian news sources over a <em>link tax<\/em>. Would Apple go to bat for privacy?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/15\/snowden-ten-years-later\/\">Snowden Ten Years Later<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/05\/forged-emergency-data-requests\/\">Forged Emergency Data Requests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/the-time-tim-cook-stood-his-ground-against-the-fbi\/\">The Time Tim Cook Stood His Ground Against the FBI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/australian-assistance-and-access-act\/\">Australian Assistance and Access Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/macbooks-t2-will-prevent-eavesdropping-on-your-microphone\/\">MacBook&rsquo;s T2 Will Prevent Eavesdropping on Your Microphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/fbi-asks-apple-for-secure-golden-key\/\">FBI Asks Apple for Secure Golden Key<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/apple-and-privacy\/\">Apple and Privacy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tosin Ajuwon (via Hacker News, 2, 3): 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. The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-07-07T18:20:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"9b737b39-8563-4a74-a88c-9b018e6cab6c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-07T18:20:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Am3N7OYVjSnSojJsBjmyrbA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,152,2425,2169,432,31,2185,2686,30,2223,1211,355],"class_list":["post-39996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-camera","tag-canada","tag-france","tag-gps","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-microphone","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39997,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996\/revisions\/39997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}