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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] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

he chose to agree to be monitored and they chose to continue living with him” was uttered

That got me too.

"The alternative is that they could have rented a separate house while the breadwinner of the family was in jail. They agreed to it!"

Utterly absurd. I also think, especially for the 14 year old, that level of surveillance is itself a form of abuse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Abuse? The ACLU needs to represent the family members and sue for 1st amendment violations