“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little oversight.”
Based on the scenario laid out here, anyone in the world could instantly send him to jail by texting him a phub URL from a burner phone.
Nearly all texting clients would automatically pull the thumbnail and other metadata instantly.
He wouldn’t even need to unlock the phone. Go straight to jail, do not collect $200.