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> The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offences, as well as delinquency and organised crime.

Not just phones looks like.



> cars

For the very strange who accept driving the new "smartphones with wheels".

Including, note, the cars with the embedded telephone as mandated by the european union past 2018 - the e-call systems. Some articles went "there could be privacy issues, but it is a remote eventuality": now you see that someone could push as normal an eavesdropper in your car.


"A remote eventuality" my ass, I bet that's the primary reason behind the push.


Sometimes, Stavros, it is a painful choice to decide in assessment between malice and the various shades of stupidity - the perspective of the latter can be a tad more difficult to digest.

But the last time I read reported unhandable blabbering devoid of awareness and mental competence, attributed to a "minister of the republic", was just minutes ago. When you hear utterings like "it will save lives" - completely alien to conscience of quality of life, good reason, cleanness and propriety, rejection of absurdity, collaterals etc. - I am afraid they may actually "believe" that (or, better, just "sit on that", "hold on that", "cling to that" in some internal economy).


Hm, yeah, you're right. It's a difficult choice because both options are so dire, but I guess they have to be when you have a decision like this.




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