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This article shows many issues with society but the title is super click-baity. It doesn't mention that it is talking about juvenile offenders, leaving the read
by lotu 8y ago
This article shows many issues with society but the title is super click-baity. It doesn't mention that it is talking about juvenile offenders, leaving the reader to assume Chicago is picking arbitrary children and tracking them. Furthermore, the main point of the article is not about GPS monitors, as those are already long accepted, as a condition of release, but instead about a two-way auto-pick-up call system built into the device, and the fact those calls are recorded.
Also lot of the issues they talk about go beyond the main privacy focused thrust behind adding a two wall call system to GPS tracking bracelets. How kids can get re-arrested because they forgot to charge the device, or are humiliated and effectively drop out of school because the device beeps in class, or are unable to eat because they are not permitted to leave their house which has no food because their family is poor.
These are real issues and deserves more attention, it is a shame that we only see because there is a clickbait headline. The problem isn't this specific feature being added to these devices, but rather a larger "emergent system" that is the result of many individuals and organizations acting independently and in a self interested fashion. As a society we have not managed to ensure the moral character of those with power over other people.
Technology isn't the cause or the solution to this problem because the problem is the people. People will find ways use things to be cruel or kind to each other regardless of of if that thing is latest advances in telecommunications or just fist sized rock.