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How would this even work?
Presumably you'd be legally forced to install the renegade app (presuming you actually "owned" a smartphone)?
But even then, you could just remove those permissions, right?
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presumably something like what in Germany was called the "federal trojan", trojans installed by the police on surveillance subject's phones. the article reads like it's in that direction, at least
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you mean, like Pegasus Spyware?
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