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

submitted 1 year ago by anji@lemmy.anji.nl to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] uglytruck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And here I worry about eliminating ads, trackers and Google Play services on my phone. There's no way I would agree to that shit.

[–] SoManyChoices@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

They get you to agree because the alternative is sitting in jail for a year awaiting trial.