this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
89 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
37608 readers
206 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Jayzuz. If the app's EULA specifically states it's NOT to be used as a judicial tool, why in the f*ck are cops using it anyway???
Murica is so far down the Big Brother rabbit hole rn I fear for its survival.
The app is clearly done by religious nutjobs that get off on societal voyeurism, they don't mind the cops, they are just covering their legal asses.
True ... but again if the EULA clearly states the app will not hold up in court, why use it? At the very least it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and at worst it's a blatant abuse of constitutional rights.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't hold up in court. Most of the time it is enough to scare someone into taking plea deals.
And this is how innocent people spend 20 yrs in prison or end up on death row.
Murica and her justice system are FUBAR.
Laws and rules only apply to people, not cops.
I wish we could leave cynical takes like this back on Reddit. They don't add anything of value to the conversation.
It does add to the conversation. Cops ruin lives, or end them illegally and only get let go from their current position and offered a new one somewhere else. Cops do not have to follow the laws, it's not cynicism. Sometimes the truth just sucks. You have the same chance of being killed by the police as you do from any other stranger.
ACAB
Isn't cops another word police in the US? In the article they write it was the probation office who mandated the app and then a court prosecuted him because of it.
I'm not a lawyer in the slightest, but wouldn't stuff like that be grounds for a mistrial?
not a mistrial, this isn't happening during trial. It might be interesting if they do arrest him for violating the pre-trial terms to see what sort of civil liability the courts may have if it turns out they were wrong, but even then these are often drawn up as 'consent decrees' which are essentially contracts you enter into with the court where a lot of things are possible that wouldn't be normally.