... wtf is going on over there... What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I'm American, I know I can't throw stones here, but y'alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should've listened.

But, wtf?

btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.

Wouldn't this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

How to make your country burn faster 101

It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.

While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they've been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.

1984 - George Orwell tried to warn us.

The article does not mention, how will this be achieved technology wise? I don't know of any universal way that a government might activate these features on a person's phone. Unless network operators/phone manufacturers start installing backdoors. This does not bode well.

The US has exported it's police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it's all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!

I am Indian. Even our douche bag of politicians will think twice before passing such legislation. Of course they will spy illegally on us but they won't pass such obvious fascist legislation.

Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can't be that stupid.

A Google search for "France phone camera" only gives this posted link and dailymail.co.uk article, both of which are not really trustworthy sources, IMO.

So I'm gonna go with "this is very possibly fake news".

At least it's happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

Privacy and anonymity is illusion.

~~LIberté~~, ~~Egalité~~, ~~Fraternité~~.

Is this a legitimate source of news?

France always was a weird country

I see this going very poorly very quickly. I don't know how much longer we're going to have a France after this, but I'm interested in seeing how this unfolds.

that'd be the point I'd forgo smartphones entirely