Einar@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 年前France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on peoplegazettengr.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareAreYouNotEntertained@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
minus-squarefoggenbooty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前Police, no. Homeland security? crickets
minus-squarepips@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.
minus-squarearcturus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前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
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.
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