“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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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t this also violate right to privacy of everyone else in the home? I smell a civil rights issue.

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      1 year ago

      Oh totally. And they’re not even alleged to have done anything wrong.

      The prosecutor will say “well they could have lived in a Four Seasons instead of with their father.” Prosecutors are seldom reasonable people.

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        1 year ago

        I believe the judge actually said something to the effect of “they chose to live with him still, and consented to the app”