{"id":1908,"date":"2022-12-15T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/15\/how-tracking-devices-aggravate-gender-violence\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:13:53","slug":"how-tracking-devices-aggravate-gender-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/15\/how-tracking-devices-aggravate-gender-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"How tracking devices aggravate gender violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5d3edx\/apple-airtag-stalking-police-family-court\">Vice reports<\/a> on one of many cases in which a vindictive ex (almost always male) uses Apple\u2019s AirTags or similar tech to keep stalking and harassing their former partners (almost always female).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977-357x700.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977-77x150.jpg 77w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977-768x1504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977-784x1536.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to complaints that tech companies like Apple are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-06\/apple-sued-by-women-over-dangerous-airtag-stalking-by-exes?leadSource=uverify%20wall\">not doing enough<\/a> to prevent this, the article also notes that the problem is not merely due to tech but also is encoded into the law that suffers from gender bias:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201c\u2026courts tend to view family disputes through a gendered lens, Godsoe [ a professor of law at Brooklyn Law School] said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cThere is lots of gender bias in family law. And I think there is the assumption that men are not as involved, but then women get slammed if they&#8217;re not perfect,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice reports on one of many cases in which a vindictive ex (almost always male) uses Apple\u2019s AirTags or similar tech to keep stalking and [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/15\/how-tracking-devices-aggravate-gender-violence\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[310,311,266],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gender-violence","tag-responsible-tech","tag-tracking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1977.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-uM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}