Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones
With riots rocking the country, French parliamentarians have passed a bill granting law enforcement the right to snoop on suspects via"the remote activation of an electronic device without the knowledge or consent of its owner."passed earlier. According to French publicationtheir version, albeit with a few amendments that will require the Senate to OK the changes before it can become law.
Under the provision, French police will have the right to activate cameras and microphones remotely, as well as gathering location data from devices belonging to suspects accused of committing crimes that are punishable by at least five years in jail. Police can gather data in that manner for up to six months, and any connected device – smartphones, laptops and even automobiles – can be used for surveillance.
"At a time when police violence is only increasing, when political movements are being muzzled by surveillance and massive searches, parliamentarians are about to authorize the transformation of all connected objects into police snitches," French digital rights group La Quadrature du NetFrench justice minister Éric Dupond-Moretti said the bill will only apply to a few dozen cases per year and, rather than being a way for France to get government-sponsored spyware onto the devices...
For much of the world it was just another week, but in the US it was Independence Day on Tuesday, making things a bit quiet. That doesn't mean there weren't some critical vulnerabilities identified, though. Decentralized social network Mastodon leads the pack with a rather serious issue identified this week.The issue could let an attacker with a specially-crafted media file"cause Mastodon's media processing code to create arbitrary files at any location," according to NIST. Any file that Mastodon has access to could be overwritten as well. Mastodon users are advised to patch to version 3.5.9, 4.0.5 or 4.1.3, depending on the fork they're using.
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