Some monitoring apps are used in place of incarceration Getty Images/Moment R/panithan pholpanichrassamee
An analysis of monitoring apps installed on people鈥檚 smartphones in the US as an alternative to incarceration found numerous privacy flaws. For instance, an app used to track a quarter of a million people with pending immigration cases required 鈥渄angerous permissions鈥 without mentioning it in its privacy policy.
at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues analysed 16 Android smartphone apps used by federal and state authorities to track people awaiting immigration court dates, young people in juvenile detention systems and…
