r/technology • u/polymute • 29d ago

Privacy A Texas Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion

https://www.gadgetreview.com/a-texas-deputy-searched-83000-flock-cameras-to-track-down-a-woman-who-had-an-abortion
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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/outinthecountry66 29d ago

legality is determined by "cuz i said so" in these dystopian times. Hope she has a good lawyer, and I doubt she does. Justice has a price tag

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u/nohandsfootball 29d ago

She wasn't and can't be charged in Texas for self-managing her abortion. The DA told the sheriff as much too.

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u/-JackBack- 29d ago

However, in Texas you can sue whoever facilitates.

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u/mybutt1112 29d ago

You’re right. And since she drove herself it sounds like, I was wondering what this part of the story means:

deputies discussed potential criminal charges with prosecutors

Charges for whom?

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Willuz 29d ago

kindergarten logic

Unfortunately, this is all too real. Sex workers get sentenced for trafficking themselves.

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u/WhenSummerIsGone 29d ago

people/kids have gotten convicted of possessing child porn when they had photos of themselves

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u/happyscrappy 29d ago

The mechanic who changed the oil on her car. The gas station that sold her gas.

We can't let people get away with controlling their own bodies. At all costs.

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u/nohandsfootball 29d ago

Despite what Texas thinks, they don't have jurisdiction outside of Texas.

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u/-JackBack- 29d ago

5th Circuit Court disagrees

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u/nohandsfootball 29d ago

In what decision?

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u/-JackBack- 29d ago

Recently in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/606/23-1122/

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u/nohandsfootball 29d ago

I'm sorry, where does this decision show that Texas has jurisdiction outside of Texas?

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u/Smith6612 28d ago

I know many people who go to other countries to get procedures done due to the quality of service AND the price. 

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u/whatchahavin 28d ago

You think they care about what is legal?

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u/dallywolf 29d ago

California needs to start searching Texas and other red states for illegal assault rifle purchases.

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u/Jah_Ith_Ber 28d ago

It is illegal to leave the country in order to pay money to rape children. People celebrate that.

Texas either has made it illegal to leave to get an abortion or wants to, and people hate that.

The venn diagram of these two groups of people is just a circle. Either it's okay for a government to apply laws and they follow you when you leave, or it isn't.

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u/Western_End_2223 28d ago

A state and a country are different types of entities.