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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] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn’t this also violate right to privacy of everyone else in the home? I smell a civil rights issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh totally. And they’re not even alleged to have done anything wrong.

The prosecutor will say “well they could have lived in a Four Seasons instead of with their father.” Prosecutors are seldom reasonable people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I believe the judge actually said something to the effect of "they chose to live with him still, and consented to the app"