South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time

Victims can open the app and track a tagged suspect’s location and direction of travel once they come within a 2km radius. If that distance falls below 1km, police and probation authorities receive an alert and contact the victim.

seams okay for me

That seems pretty short though, surely it would mean you are not allowed to live, work or even vist the same town they live or work in.

Like if anyone I knew was to be my stalker, one of us would have to quit their job and sell their house to relocate.

Then they should have thought of that before they started harassing someone.

But they may not have even done so. This is for alleged stalkers.

2km also essentially allows stalking them if you accuse them. Are they at home? Let’s just walk within 2km and find out. Even just saying a distance and not location would make triangulation easy. Just go to 3 spots and see where the distances overlap. 2 would often be good enough for an educated guess.

I am more in favour of notifying police. 1km is probably still a bit of a wide area although if they are just notified first and only take action if you continue moving closer, say to 200m or so, then it might be more reasonable.

If they have an ankle monitor, there is probably some sort of proof. Otherwise the app would probably be the least of your worries. Your theory about tracking the stalker is pretty useless because most people want to avoid their stalker at all cost and not track them down.

Also if the police only reached out to you when your stalker is 200m away how would they arrive in time to help you.