On 1/16/13 7:18 PM, Eric Charles wrote:
I am, again, quite unsure how the law would distinguish between
someone doing that as a stalker and someone doing that as your friend.
From Wikipedia:
According to a 2002 report by the National Center for Victims of
Crime, "Virtually
any unwanted contact between two people [that intends] to directly or
indirectly
communicates a threat or places the victim in fear can be considered
stalking"[1]
although in practice the legal standard is usually somewhat more strict.
So long as your friend, or some other curious person, is not doing it in
such a way to make you afraid, it's not stalking. The observation would
need to be recognized as an event by the observed, or there would need
to be a third party witness or some way to relate to the observed that
an observation occurred in order for a threat to even be considered.
For example, that the observer dumped all of the individual-focused, but
public-sourced surveillance into a web page. But it is not the
surveillance itself that is the stalking threat, it's making it known
that the surveillance is underway that is the stalking threat. The type
of source used is incidental.
Marcus
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