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Study of Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps Confirms Advocates’ Concerns of Privacy Harms
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Researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Law School recently published a groundbreaking study analyzing the technical capabilities of 16 electronic monitoring (EM) smartphone apps used as “alternatives” to criminal and civil detention. The study, billed as the “first systematic analysis of the electronic monitoring apps ecosystem,” confirmed many advocates’ fears that EM apps allow access to wide swaths of information, often contain third party trackers, and are frequently unreliable. The study also raises further questions about the lack …
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