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

submitted 1 year 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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can maybe understand monitoring the accused, especially when accused of possessing cp, with this.

The article doesnt go a whole lot into the case, but it sounds like it was flimsy, but then again i like to think cases like that are hopefully well researched to make sure the person is guilty, but often in the legal system, with any accusation, the goal is not to find truth but to find jail time on sometrhing the prosecution has made its mind up about, because a loss i guess could be seen as embarrassing.

But if this was going to be deployed the limit should be the accused phone, not family members, and from what i understood they have to pay for it?

Several legal experts expressed concern about the monitoring conditions imposed by the judge in Hannah’s husband’s case. But Phyllis Emerick, the chief deputy public defender in Monroe County, argues that because Hannah’s husband and his family consented to the surveillance, they gave up their rights to privacy. “He agreed that he would not access electronic devices in his household in exchange for release,” she says. “It was the family’s choice to continue living with him.”

what the fuck kind of logic is this, lets say the guy is a piece of shit, if he is, still its not easy to just move, especially with the stress of leaving someone youve known for years, or forever. Not to mention the financial burden.

This is some CCP shit. If we allow this to permeate across the US, we will have a far worse problem than the NSA constantly monitoring us which most people didnt care about, device level spyware is next level, and maybe people wont care then either.

This feels like that shit in the game watch dogs, while i imagine not as fantastical as the game, what if control of these apps is gotten not just b the governemnt, already doing shady shit, but hackers as well. the precedent set here can be very alarming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is some CCP shit.

Absolutely

I despise the CCP not with one but with for passions, for all the shit they did and still do, and because it seems they won't be paying for all their crimes anytime soon.

But by pulling these shenanigans, the US gets closer and closer to the CCP, which they denounce every chance they get, this making it progressively more difficult for people from everywhere else to justify their support for the US, if not as the champion of freedom, at least as the lesser evil.

They are still far ahead of China in human rights and law abiding, but the gap is closing with shit like this and increasing inequality.

Please do something about it.