French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics(engadget.com)

104 points by mysterypie 3 years ago | 79 comments

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search(techspot.com)

1201 points by eecc 3 months ago | 924 comments

TechSpot news article about US prosecutors charging an Atlanta man after his GrapheneOS phone wiped itself during an airport border search.

Ghana's MPs pass bill criminalising witchcraft accusation(trtafrika.com)

55 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 20 comments

Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware(apnews.com)

163 points by arkadiyt 2 years ago | 52 comments

France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones(francetvinfo.fr)

91 points by dgan 3 years ago | 58 comments

A French village that voted to ban scrolling in public(theguardian.com)

89 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 133 comments

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data(bleepingcomputer.com)

383 points by robtherobber 6 months ago | 138 comments

News report that a French government agency confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered the stolen data for sale.

France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls(lemonde.fr)

946 points by aziaziazi 2 months ago | 450 comments

Le Monde article reporting that France will ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11, with fines and a public reporting website.

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US(apnews.com)

1073 points by AareyBaba 8 months ago | 541 comments

AP News article on France replacing Zoom and Microsoft Teams in government as Europe pushes for digital autonomy from US tech companies.

France rejects backdoor mandate(eff.org)

905 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 262 comments

EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT(politico.eu)

463 points by sarusso 3 years ago | 271 comments

POLITICO Europe news article reporting that Italy's privacy regulator has banned ChatGPT amid calls to suspend new releases of the AI tool.

France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms(blast-info.fr)

98 points by noplay 1 day ago | 87 comments

Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.