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Virtual Imprisonment as Big Brother Interactively Listens From Cradle to School to Prison to Parole to Grave

Loaded on Aug. 19, 2019 by Edward Lyon published in Criminal Legal News September, 2019, page 14
Filed under: Electronic Monitoring, Police State-Surveillance. Location: United States of America.

by Ed Lyon

In today’s world of technological marvels, electronic monitoring has far surpassed being useful merely to virtually imprison pretrial releasees and parolees. Nanotechnology has enabled parents to keep their children on an electronic tether while Big Brother sees a lot more than most people would ever believe — ...

 

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