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In more than 30 interviews with The New York Times, domestic abuse victims, their lawyers, shelter workers and emergency responders described how the technology was becoming an alarming new tool. Abusers - using apps on their smartphones, which are connected to the internet-enabled devices - would remotely control everyday objects in the home, sometimes to watch and listen, other times to scare or show power. Even after a partner had left the home, the devices often stayed and continued to be used to intimidate and confuse.
Connected home devices have increasingly cropped up in domestic abuse cases over the past year, according to those working with victims of domestic violence. Those at help lines said more people were calling in the last 12 months about losing control of Wi-Fi-enabled doors, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras. Lawyers also said they were wrangling with how to add language to restraining orders to cover smart home technology.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @08:52PM
There are no women in IT, you incel! All you incels chased them out! Technology is inherently misogynist! It's a conspiracy by all you incels to incel rape them! If you incels hadn't designed compiler to error out upon detection of a womb, women would take all your jobs and software wouldn't have any bugs or security issues, evar!!!
Death to incels! Police be upon them!