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de-Googled Fairphone 4 coming to US is rare good tech news for the privacy conscious.
  • Thank God, finally! Currently on a pixel 5a with /e/OS and I love it, but theyre not very repairable. Ill run with it as long as possible but this, or the FP5 if mine lasts forever, will be my next buy

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    France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people
  • A little confused. Regardless of whats legal we know what they 'can' do, just not whether its legal or not. What we lose by legalising it is precisely that it can be used in court as legitimate evidence.

    Currently in the US everyone knows they have far less privacy from the government, or from corporations for that matter, but ill gotten info cant easily be uses in court.

    IMO the really scary thing is that now the government is just buying info from data brokers where the users technically consented in some app's TOS then using that. Its legally cleaner, and honestly probably better than info they could've gotten from from shadier methods.

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