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

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not a lawyer in the slightest, but wouldn't stuff like that be grounds for a mistrial?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.