Indiana CJ System forcing apps on family’s phones while husband waited trial

[ch33zw1z]

An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance

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.

www.wired.com

Seems a bit of an over reach. Who’s watching the watchers?

 

[Vic]

Holy Orwell, Batman!

 

[Paratus]

Apparently the app (written by a former NSA guy) is normally used by evangelicals and conservative Catholics to help break “porn addiction” by allowing a family member or pastor to receive screenshots, recorded every several seconds or so, of the “addicts” phone. This is to help with accountability.

In this case the husband I think is out on bail for alleged child porn. The family had to to agree to this monitoring on all devices including the kids or they wouldn’t allow bail.

From the article “he” supposedly violated his agreement when his wife’s device hit pornhubs servers.

The authors were able to show that chrome will hit servers for regularly loaded webpages without being specifically asked. The software also says it’s not supposed to be used for legal monitoring.

Of course the husband and family agreed to the monitoring of their own free will after he was threatened with remaining in jail without it.

 

[brycejones]

Apparently the app (written by a former NSA guy) is normally used by evangelicals and conservative Catholics to help break “porn addiction” by allowing a family member or pastor to receive screenshots, recorded every several seconds or so, of the “addicts” phone. This is to help with accountability.

In this case the husband I think is out on bail for alleged child porn. The family had to to agree to this monitoring on all devices including the kids or they wouldn’t allow bail.

From the article “he” supposedly violated his agreement when his wife’s device hit pornhubs servers.

The authors were able to show that chrome will hit servers for regularly loaded webpages without being specifically asked. The software also says it’s not supposed to be used for legal monitoring.

Of course the husband and family agreed to the monitoring of their own free will after he was threatened with remaining in jail without it.

Yeah I'm not sure how you argue "free will" when the choice is jail or this.

 

[Paratus]

Yeah I'm not sure how you argue "free will" when the choice is jail or this.

It’s obviously not free will when your choice is: Do this or jail.

It is however what both the prosecutor and surprisingly the head of the public defenders office in their county said.

To me it looks like violations of the 4th and 14th amendment.