SWOP Behind Bars

This right here is why I am always beating the drum about information security. Developers who don’t take your infosec seriously do NOT deserve your business & frankly they shouldn’t even be putting out products, because then stuff like this happens.

If you have used the Tea app, be careful! "Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’…

The current, less sophisticated recording glasses are already a problem. These are so unnecessary.

These crimes are enabled by our current sex work laws. Landlords may fall foul of the law by renting to sex workers, so sex workers are forced to rent from people like this at exploitative rates such as €1,000 per week! sundayworld.com/crime/courts/m…

Collective Shout, an Australian anti-pornography group, has claimed credit for Steam's recent removal of a large number of sexually explicit games and new, stricter moderation guidelines regarding such material. In a statement to PC Gamer, Valve cited pressure from payment…

"The officials who spoke to The Times said prosecutors have struggled to get several protest-related cases past grand juries, which need only to find probable cause that a crime has been committed in order to move forward."

For a movement that claims to be rooted in liberation, carceral feminism sure loves a cage. At its core, carceral feminism is the belief that the best—or only—way to address gender-based violence is through criminalization, policing, and punishment. It rose to prominence in the…

Homelessness affects all of us — both because it is a fate that can befall any working-class person, and because it erodes the ethos of mutual respect that a democratic society requires. Read: jacobin.com/2025/07/homele…

Are you baffled by what’s going on with the #EpsteinList? Wealthy and powerful men everywhere escape justice because that’s the way the system works. This wealthy bondsman exploited women in jail for 40 years. He’s out on bond. wesh.com/article/orland…

Scotland is threatening to introduce a ban on the purchase of sex, despite evidence that it will not reduce the number of people in sex work, or incidents of trafficking or exploitation. ireland-live.ie/news/scotland/…

So you would think that the hardest thing about getting the bond money together would be getting the bond money together, right? Nope! It’s a huge achievement, but there’s so much more in the process.

We made the goal! Thank you to the sweet client of sw’s who got us over the goalpost! Everything has been paid and we are anxiously awaiting her release!

Thank you so much to the family of @ATL_ThickDream for donating $250! $145 to go and she can come home! She will be free to take care of her baby and see someone about that postpartum depression! It’s miserable!

Less than $400 left to get our beloved sw sister back home to her baby and her mom in the atlanta area. Please donate if you can… Every bit makes a difference!

🚨 URGENT: One of our clients is in jail right now—right after giving birth. She’s suffering from postpartum and should be recovering with her newborn We need another $400 to post her $905 bond. Please donate if you can. swopbehindbars.org/donate #FreeHer #PostpartumJustice…

Let’s be honest: America doesn’t hate trafficking because it cares about survivors. It hates trafficking because it makes a perfect villain. It’s visceral. It’s cinematic. It’s bipartisan clickbait. But dig deeper and you find most people don’t understand what trafficking…

Where is the #EpsteinList? Who is it protecting? podbean.com/ew/pb-38en8-19…

"Many cannot or do not want to be identified due to the persisting stigma. A shift is needed. For the first time in Ireland, we need to move towards the radical act of listening to sx workers – not talking down to them, or telling them what they need, but actually listening."