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An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little oversight.”

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Jayzuz. If the app's EULA specifucally states it's NOT to be used as a judicial tool, why in the f*ck are cops using it anyway???

Murica is so far down the Big Brother rabbit hole rn I fear for its survival.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The app is clearly done by religious nutjobs that get off on societal voyeurism, they don't mind the cops, they are just covering their legal asses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

True ... but again if the EULA clearly states the app will not hold up in court, why use it? At the very least it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and at worst it's a blatant abuse of constitutional rights.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if it doesn't hold up in court. Most of the time it is enough to scare someone into taking plea deals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

And this is how innocent people spend 20 yrs in prison or end up on death row.

Murica and her justice system are FUBAR.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Laws and rules only apply to people, not cops.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I wish we could leave cynical takes like this back on Reddit. They don't add anything of value to the conversation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not a lawyer in the slightest, but wouldn't stuff like that be grounds for a mistrial?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

not a mistrial, this isn't happening during trial. It might be interesting if they do arrest him for violating the pre-trial terms to see what sort of civil liability the courts may have if it turns out they were wrong, but even then these are often drawn up as 'consent decrees' which are essentially contracts you enter into with the court where a lot of things are possible that wouldn't be normally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Isn't cops another word police in the US? In the article they write it was the probation office who mandated the app and then a court prosecuted him because of it.