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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] 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.