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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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[–] twack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.