I don't know, building system that handles all complex cases and can respond intelligently to any 16 year old is hard. Having a human in the loop that calls yo

I don't know, building system that handles all complex cases and can respond intelligently to any 16 year old is hard. Having a human in the loop that calls you up and says, "Remember you have to plug the device in." is going to be a lot more effective than a blinking red light or an auditory beep when the batteries are low, (after all the user might be asleep when that happens), a human would be able to remind the user before the battery is low or even escalate to another human for example calling a parent to remind the child in person. It is fair to question if this extra flexibility is worth the cost in privacy. Though personally I think the GPS monitor is a much bigger incursion on privacy, but I think we generally accept that the benefits outweigh the costs in this situation.f If you don't think this for communication as described what do you think it is for? I don't think covert surveillance makes sense because the wearer is already going feel surveilled (that is kinda the literal point of the device). Sarah Staudt, Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, obtusely suggests the device is for sexual deviants. > The idea that an adult can turn on a listening device while a child is, say, in the bathroom or in their bedroom is not good. I presume she is referring to the fact this is where children masterbate/have sex, as otherwise listening to a person sleep or use the bathroom really is not interesting or particularly hard to do (though if you do that is kinda creepy). Anyways, this feels like way too much work if you just want to listen to 16 year old sexy-time, and the decision makers (like the mayor or chief prosecutor) isn't even going be in a position where they get to abuse the system to do that. Perhaps this is a form of public corruption? Build an unneeded system in exchange for kickbacks this feels the most plausible but I don't see anything here that would make this more likely the case for the system mentioned in the article over any random public contract.