A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond.

“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.”

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    2 years ago

    even if the guy did and would be found guilty of child porn (for which he would deserve to rot in hell)

    1. he hasn’t been convicted and is therefore innocent at this time. subjecting someone who is innocent to this is insane, regardless of allegations
    2. the phrase “he chose to agree to be monitored and they chose to continue living with him” was uttered. what the fuck
    3. so like assume i’m adversarial to him. i send him an email which entices him to click a link like "hey neighbor, we went to the campsite and took picture (link)[pornhub.com]. he clicks the link and goes to jail?! actualy scratch that, he’s not allowed to touch electronic (again, insane but less so) his wife clicks it and he goes to jail?
    4. even if his wife went to pornhub deliberately, so what? is she not allowed to look at porn? if so, why? if she is and they’re just assuming he did it because reasons, is he not allowed to look at porn(beyond the using a computer at all thing)? would a porn mag be okay, and if so why or why not?

    in this guy’s shoes i would be this close to encasing a bulldozer in concrete and going for a ride.

    • twack@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      Based on the scenario laid out here, anyone in the world could instantly send him to jail by texting him a phub URL from a burner phone.

      Nearly all texting clients would automatically pull the thumbnail and other metadata instantly.

      He wouldn’t even need to unlock the phone. Go straight to jail, do not collect $200.

    • nodester@partizle.com
      6·
      2 years ago

      he chose to agree to be monitored and they chose to continue living with him” was uttered

      That got me too.

      “The alternative is that they could have rented a separate house while the breadwinner of the family was in jail. They agreed to it!”

      Utterly absurd. I also think, especially for the 14 year old, that level of surveillance is itself a form of abuse.