Thanks, Marcus for this clarification. I should have looked it up myself.
So I guess I CAN shadow you, just so long as I do it with effusive reassurances of my good will. I imagine myself telling the police officer, "I so admire Marcus. I want to know EVERYTHING about him. I want to BE him. (Sorry Doug, I have changed my allegiance. Fickle, I know) I want to join every club. Accompany him to every restaurant. Order what he orders. " Glad to be clear on that. Now. Where is it you said you live? Nick From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 8:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Privacy vs Open Public Data 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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