Tuesday 28 April 2020

When Your Freedom Depends On an App

When Your Freedom Depends On an App

On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a smartphone—not an insignificant task for someone who’d just completed a sentence, but Layla was lucky to have a friend who could buy one for her. She says she was at home in bed a few days later when the app she had been mandated to install under the terms of her release went off unexpectedly, the high-pitched warning alarm blaring as it sent a notification to her parole officers telling him that she was not, in fact, at home.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/when-your-freedom-depends-on-an-app-1843109198?source=Snapzu

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