Margaret E Ward: Technology’s war on women — the new coercive control and confinement
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Across Ireland and around the world, technology has quickly become one of the most powerful and insidious tools of control, harassment and intimidation wielded against women and girls. So, why haven’t regulators and governments restricted them?
She thought this only happened in movies. No matter how she changed her routine, she kept seeing him. She thought she was crazy until she found his bank card outside her home.
It was not instinct or familiarity that led him to her locations in Cork. It was a magnetic tracker, no bigger than a coin, hidden inside the tailpipe of her car. Gardaí found two tracking devices in his house plus a tracker app on his phone containing the location of the victim’s home and journeys she’d taken.
She had been carrying her own surveillance everywhere she went, unknowingly broadcasting her location. Her “crime” and the possible reason for the illegal surveillance: breaking up with a boyfriend of 18 months.
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