France set to allow police to spy through phones

Those titles are misleading. My understanding is that a judge will have to authorise it and that it will be limited to 6 months.

So we need to see what the threshold will be to convince a judge (and how that will work technically).

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037

Does this mean they will mandate a back door?

Thank you, rioters.