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Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women (www.cam.ac.uk)
35 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | hide | past | web | 6 comments | favorite





> Nobody could have realised that camera traps put in the Indian forest to monitor mammals actually have a profoundly negative impact on the mental health of local women who use these spaces.

Most women could have predicted that spycams in a park, run by a government in a country with known issues around women’s rights, would lead to issues.

Even governments with incredibly strict rules and indelible audit trails struggle with men in government using their access to data to stalk women. India is not a country known for these things.


Here in NY, we had a [very short-term] governor, who used to be the Attorney General, get hoist by his own petard.

While AG, he put in place, a monitoring regimen, that caught him, as Guv, using state funds to buy hookers and whatnot.

For all I know, he might have gotten away with it, if he hadn’t been using state funds.

It kinda ripped the lid off a bunch of fairly misogynistic attitudes, though. He didn’t last long, after that.


another article with some other details https://www.enca.com/opinion/wildlife-monitoring-tech-used-h...

seems like they developed a set of principles a while back https://wildlabs.net/sites/default/files/principles_for_the_...

But my guess is without strict enforcement of the rules with consequences this will carry on.


That article references this University of Cambridge study.

Perhaps there's an inherent conflict between using the forest as a source of resources for the nearby village, and using it as a storage space for tigers.

The forest is for all to use and not exploit

That same forest without the cameras didn't exhibit that particular kind of conflict. I suppose the problem is in behavior of particular humans here, not of tigers, the forest, or even the cameras.



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