South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time - Dexerto
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South Korea has rolled out an app that allows stalking victims to see the live location of their alleged stalker if they begin moving nearby.
  • LovelyMover@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    At first glance it seems like a good idea, but there’s something about it the makes me distinctly uneasy. False sense of security? How easily could it be manipulated?

  • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    In Norway they put ankle monitors on stalkers and everytime they approach their victim an alarm goes off and police show up and have a chat.

    The success rate is pretty good and the stalkers seem to actually lose interest in their victim when there are repeated consequences to their behavior. We are trying out this concept in Denmark too.

    Better to teach the stalker how to not stalk through pavlovian methods than to put the ownage on the victim.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    is there a country that has a verified working and sane method to handle stalkers? this seems still bad for mental health

    • moth@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      worse than not knowing if the person stalking you is waiting outside your window for you to fall asleep, so that they can come inside and rape and kill you? they aren’t just made aware of the stalker being near, the police and probation officer are as well so that they can contact the victim and assist.

      in the US, the cops would dismiss the victim and let her be murdered.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        no I’m saying why in the hell is there a need for that in the first place. I would much rather hear that the victim definitively didn’t need to worry than that they would have to constantly check an app which is bound to have failures at some point, especially when the app is put in place by people that need the victim to monitor their own stalker.

        and I never expected anything from the us. a lot of stalkers there are cops

        • moth@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          they would have to constantly check an app

          need the victim to monitor their own stalker

          neither of these are true. moth understands, sometimes it is easier to see a headline and jump to conclusions. but when you do that, you form opinions that are uninformed and incorrect.

          the monitoring is done by the authorities, and the victim is notified only when the stalker is within 2km of them. at 1km range, the police are notified and dispatched, and the probation officer calls the victim to talk them through the event.