Investigations: Why lawyers oppose remote activation of mobile phones

A matter of principle. Article 3 of the Justice bill, soon to be discussed at first reading in the Senate, is reacting the Paris Bar Association and the National Bar Council, faithful to their role as whistleblowers in terms of public freedoms. At the request of the investigative services but also of the prosecutors' offices of the Chancellery, this article must remaster the investigative techniques to bring them up to date with the digital century version 3.0. It provides for the possibility of remotely activating mobile phones in order to geolocate "in real time" but also to listen to and capture images, "without the knowledge or consent of its owner or possessor".

Adapting to the offender's ingenuity

For the Department of Justice, it is a question of adapting to the ingenuity of the offender who outsmarts the good old sound system à la papa, and putting an end to the delicate and risky handling of investigators to place their relay. In terms of simple geolocation, the future device concerns "a crime or misdemeanour punished ...

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