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An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Liz@midwest.social to c/technology@midwest.social
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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."

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[–] branchial@feddit.de 1 points 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.