It makes it legal for them to buy and deploy spyware such as Pegasus and its ilk.
You'd think that would be reserved for spy shit, but it is actually just people the local gov or corpos don't like, like soda tax activists in mexico.
I'm not at all surprised that authoritarian politicians would want features like this. From a technical perspective, though, I'm curious about how they would go about implementing them. Would they integrate backdoors into widely used apps with camera access, like WhatsApp? Or would they rely on exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in operating systems?
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772
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