Software Update Caused Hundreds of Police Ankle Monitors to Go Dark

guest · May 11, 2019

Software Update Caused Hundreds of Police Ankle Monitors to Go Dark
May 10, 2019
https://gizmodo.com/software-update-caused-hundreds-of-police-ankle-monitor-1834679901

Like a scene out of a dystopian police state film, a failed software update caused hundreds of ankle monitoring devices in the Netherlands to go dark from police surveillance on Thursday.
According to the release, a software update caused a disruption that prevented the control room from receiving data from the devices.

As ZDNet points out in its coverage of the incident, this is the second time ankle bracelets have malfunctioned in the Netherlands. In August 2018, a telecom outage reportedly knocked about 60 percent of the country’s ankle bracelet monitors off of police radar.
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