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Frederic Jacobs

French police put protesters in custody.

Police says they are free to go if they provide them with the unlock code of their phones. The people under custody refuse.

They ended up getting charged for “refusal to hand over to the judicial authorities a secret encryption key of a means of cryptology”

Even worse for one of the protesters, who didn't bring his phone and got the same charge ...

#FranceIsNotAlright politis.fr/articles/2023/04/un

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Frederic Jacobs

And now, France is allowing live biometric recognition in public spaces ...
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Frederic Jacobs

🇫🇷🕵️‍♂️ The new French law “loi d'orientation et de programmation du ministère de la Justice” would allow investigators to use IOT/smartphones microphones and cameras to spy remotely.

But France being France, they are debating an amendment excepting sextoys.

Looking forward to a new niche market of smartphones with strong vibrators that wouldn’t be legal to wiretap because they are categorized as sextoys

lcp.fr/actualites/justice-l-as

🇫🇷🕵️‍♂️ The new French law “loi d'orientation et de programmation du ministère de la Justice” would allow investigators to use IOT/smartphones microphones and cameras to spy remotely.

But France being France, they are debating an amendment excepting sextoys.

Looking forward to a new niche market of smartphones with strong vibrators that wouldn’t be legal to wiretap because they are categorized as sextoys

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