“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.”
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.
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.
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.
I’m not a lawyer in the slightest, but wouldn’t stuff like that be grounds for a mistrial?
Laws and rules only apply to people, not cops.