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

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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] 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.