A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.

A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of an Indiana man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame. The app flagged one of the family’s devices as having accessed Pornhub even though it didn’t, and this was the only evidence used to throw the man back in jail. They didn’t even try to prove he was the one who caused the app to flag Pornhub as visited, they just assumed it was him. The article contains multiple levels of “oh my god our system is messed up.”

  • JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This shit is why we need a Right to Privacy. Every person should have the right to be private from the eyes of the state. Our (American) constitution forbids the state from unwarranted search and seizure, quartering of troops, enacting or dictating religion, censoring your speech and expression, and stopping peaceful assemblies.

    Instead of saying “Privacy is sacred”, we have a mess of individual rights, which when taken together, spell out a right to privacy. We need to fix this mess, because the bandaid of the courts can’t and won’t.

    • Faendol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thank God the conservative supreme court rolled back what little we had to murder extra women in the name of a ball of cells!

  • branchial@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That is absolutely insane. The infrigement of privacy, the sexism of assuming only men watch porn, the idiotic use of technology. And this is what multiple people thought was a good idea. That poor family.