SpyVeillance: Thread

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbbey/prison-phone-companies-are-recording-attorney-client-calls-across-the-us

Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US
Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being
recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.

But their harm doesn't stop at fleecing incarcerated people, formerly
incarcerated people, and their families. Securus also has some
invasive and even illegal surveillance practices, like creating
voiceprint databases and recording attorney-client calls.



https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/incarcerated-home-rise-ankle-monitors-house-arrest-during-pandemic-n1273008

Electronic monitoring is not an alt to incarceration, it's
e-carceration and expanding the system. As advocate @waazn1 once told
me, "electronic monitors turn your home into a cell and your family
into guards." Also, EM often comes with a fee.

Incarcerated at home: The rise of ankle monitors and house arrest
during the pandemic

Researchers who study recidivism say the surveillance devices hurt
people trying to get their life on track after prison and that there’s
no evidence the technology is rehabilitative.


Private prison corps are not subject to open records laws, such as the
Freedom of Information Act, like public correctional agencies.
Accordingly, their actions, communications, and subcontracts are
shielded from public oversight.


Companies are constantly promising to cover the world in sensors as a
utopian project but it’s actually a threat.