Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ruth had watched as her husband’s behavior grew increasingly erratic. He would pace back and forth in the middle of the night in their California home, Ruth alleges, and would subject her to verbal abuse that escalated in both “frequency and severity”—sometimes in front of their young daughter. He’d also taken full control of the family’s finances, losing the bulk of their joint savings account by trading options. And then things turned violent. “It reached a breaking point when he pushed me in the library,” Ruth says. That’s when she took out her first temporary restraining order against her husband a little more than a year ago. That restraining order was just the beginning of Ruth’s ongoing legal battle with her husband, who’s also refusing her requests for a divorce. Shortly after she filed that first restraining order, her husband hit back with what she calls a “retaliatory restraining order” against her. When a judge … [Read more...] about How ChatGPT can help abuse survivors represent themselves in court
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Apple AirTags: How Apple Is Preventing Creepers From Electronically Stalking You
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin One issue that most across the political spectrum can agree on today is that we need to limit the power of big tech to surveil and control our lives. So when the biggest tech company on the planet launches a new product that lets people tag and find personal items, it comes with an additional burden. After all, creepers could put one in your bag. An abusive husband or boyfriend could hide one in your car. And that could lead to all kinds of horrible events. Cue Apple AirTag. Today Apple CEO Tim Cook launched AirTag, a button-sized object with location awareness and sensing thanks to a billion+ Apple devices in a global network called Find My. In other words, all modern Apple mobile devices participate in this massive location-aware system, at least if they have Bluetooth on. Sounds scary? It should. However, Apple is working hard to ensure privacy and security and safety throughout the network. That’s … [Read more...] about Apple AirTags: How Apple Is Preventing Creepers From Electronically Stalking You