Sandy proposes:
Now let's put some Cypherpunk brain power towards those tattletale ankle transponders...
What are other technological devices used to track parolees? Are there any limits on what can be used? Is the parolee less subject to pan-surveillance than the prisoner? Or is the parolee subject to greater surveillance than the prisoner due to being outside physical enclosure? The use of parolees as snitches is another issue, as with citizens who greatly fear prison, even more so the threat of prison, even more than that being seen as inadvertently swept up in an operation that lumps all in a heap. Pre-emptive ass-saving snitching by anyone subject to fear of authoritarian punishment: before and after a subpoena arrives, before and after a grand jury appearance, before and after appearing as a witness, before and after being named as an unindicted co-conspirator, before anda fter being named indiscriminately diffusely as a participant in an activity the government chooses to suspect of planning something that might become a chargeable offense which warrants pre-emptive spying and gathering pre-evidence by pre-legal means against those who need to watched closely, with purposeful clues left and rumors dropped to maximum self-policing effect. Did I leave anyone out the realm of suspicion which may well induce running to officials to relieve anxiety with a tale to tell? Even fabricating such tales if that pleasures the protectors ever able to spot a snitch aching to clear the record. A tall tale such as this one -- but how to tell who's quietly transponding beneath cover of technological simulators.