Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom
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@evacide I remember during the Snowden revelations it came out that such behavior was internally nicknamed LOVEINT at the NSA.
@evacide it gets worse. Something that happened in my city last year. Abuser got a restraining order, the kind where both abuser and victim are tracked by the police to detect violations. Guess what happened next.
For the slower readers out there: the other policemen used it to track the victim and send her location to the abuser.
@evacide so you’re saying that even if my local city restricts its PD from sharing data with the feds, they might (are likely to) use this spyware for stalking!? (Not that one should trust that the data will be kept from the feds)
