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Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag (www.theguardian.com)
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A 77-year-old activist is facing recall to prison because her wrists are too small for an electronic tag.

Gaie Delap, from Bristol, was sent to prison in August, along with four co-defendants, for her part in a campaign of disruptive protests on the M25 in November 2022.

Several months after she was jailed for the Just Stop Oil protests, she was let out after being told she qualified to serve the rest of her sentence under a home detention curfew.

But the company contracted to fit the tag to Delap was unable to attach one to her ankle because of a health condition, and there are no devices available small enough to fit wrists her size.

Now there is a warrant for her arrest after the company contacted the prison authorities to tell them she “could not be monitored”.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

I heard during the pandemic there was a shortage of ankle monitors, so you were required to keep your phone on you and they'd randomly video call you a couple times a day to verify you were at home.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If it's a cell phone, how does that confirm you're home?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Triangulation maybe?

    Though you could still have a "phone" at home, some device that would act like a phone on the network and be at home and forward all calls over the network to some external device, basically just being a proxy.

    Though it could perhaps be detected because of some extra delay and compression.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Emergency services can triangulate location regardless of device and ROM using only the active modem. I'm sure gov can do the same.

    I've been in situations on a bike where I have no clue where the closest cross streets are and they could pinpoint my location when I called from a dedicated bike trail. This despite running a custom ROM that is minimal, prepaid, running proxy, etc.

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