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South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time (www.dexerto.com)

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[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It wont stay confined to stalkers, it'll start being used for poor people in general.

Trangressions like being late to work will be held against you. You know they will.

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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Don't know about you, but I'm already reprimanded if I'm late for work, whether they're tracking my real time location or not.

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 8 points 1 day ago

uses data from court-ordered electronic ankle monitors

Soo, your line of thought says that we are all gonna gef an ankle monitor? At that point i doubt the app is the kickstarter of the problem...

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