As reported by Le Monde, the bill has been criticized by the French people as a “snoopers” charter that allows police unfettered access to the location of its citizens. Moreover, police can activate cameras and microphones to take video and audio recordings of suspects. The bill will reportedly only apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail and Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti claimed that the new provision would only affect a few dozen cases per year. During a debate over the bill yesterday, French politicians added an amendment that orders judge approval for any surveillance conducted under the scope of the bill and limits the duration of surveillance to six months, according to Le Monde.
A few dozen times a year. Right.
My Froggie’s not very good. Va fon couler – that right?
Va te faire foutre
The bill will reportedly only apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail
Just like the Blair era legislation that would “only be used to deal with the most serious crime” and ended up with a council video recording people in their home because they thought the kids might be going to a school they weren’t entitled to attend.
Video and Audio recordings of suspects.
The real crims will use phones without cameras and microphones – Bluetooth mic when on a call and disconnect when done.
Joe Public (Joe Le Public?) will end up getting recorded on the slightest pretext. And how long before pedos join Les Flics and hack kids phones.
Nah, it’ll be fine.
Putain seems to serve for everything from “oh dear” to “oh fuck”.
Chris,
But doesn’t “fuck” also cover a multitude of meanings in English?
As the apocryphal story went about the young Royal Signals technician explaining to his boss, a Foreman of Signals, what’s wrong with a piece of equipments:
“Fuckers fucking fucked, Foreman.”
Signals – people who know what they’re doing.
“Fuckers fucking fucked, Foreman.”
Infantry, who’ve no clue – wouldn’t be infantry otherwise:
“ Fucking fuckers fucking fucked, Foreman.”
Cavalry, who know how to speak proper
“Fucker’s fucking fucked, fuck it Foreman.”
Royal Navy, based and realistic:
“Fucker’s fucking fucked, fuck the fucker, Foreman.”
va t’enculer
essentially “go and stick it up your arse”
Yes Tim. I believe them.
Is this the third or forth bottle of grog I’m drinking?
“The real crims will use phones without cameras and microphones – Bluetooth mic when on a call and disconnect when done.”
Easier said than done. The only surefire way to disable microphones/cameras on phones is physical. Cameras not to hard. An elastoplast over the lenses (plural important). But for the mike, you’d actually have to get into the circuit board of the phone. After which it may well not function. The ware detects the presence of a working mike.
And the only safe way to disable a phone is to take the SIM out & the battery ( rarely possible these days) then put it in a Faraday Cage.
I said elastoplast, didn’t I? Stupid of me. Black insulating tape. A phone camera would be quite capable of capturing an image through the perforations in elastoplast.
I regard the ULEZ cameras in much the same way. It is one thing to have cameras on motorways which can be useful when an accident or crime occurs, but Ulez is designed to track and record every single vehicle.
If I had a mind to riot I’d give my phone to my wife and she then drives to her mothers while my burner phone and I commit mayhem.
Nice alibi I think.
Given what Edward Snowden was happy to show us a full decade ago, this is all very academic….
BiS
Yep, always conscious on the laptop that no matter what I physically do with the camera, the mic in theory can always be activated, and nothing that I can guarantee will stop it.