Comment by jon-wood
9 hours ago
We should, but also we should prioritise more harmful behaviour being prevented over less harmful behaviour, and stalking/harassment is in my opinion more harmful than property theft.
9 hours ago
We should, but also we should prioritise more harmful behaviour being prevented over less harmful behaviour, and stalking/harassment is in my opinion more harmful than property theft.
Not on Earth, no.
It would be if stalking happened at the same frequency as property theft, but the rates are ridiculously lopsided.
So much property theft happens that we don't bother reporting almost any of it.
> It would be if stalking happened at the same frequency as property theft, but the rates are ridiculously lopsided.
But the impact of the two activities is also lopsided:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_matrix
Stalking can potentially result in rape and death, even if there's a low probability of stalking happening in general.
Frequency isn't really an issue here. I don't care that much if someone steals my luggage. I'd be a little mad if someone took my bike, but I have redundant protection for it, along with other things of more importance, or I keep them on me.
But I'd really, really not like to find out someone was following me around.
Now try traveling with $30k of equipment in your luggage, like millions do every year.
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If society didn't have to spend the amount of resources that it does dealing with the consequences of personal theft then it would have more resources to direct towards issues like stalking.
I bet Apple could produce some really interesting data from these tools and others that could be used to proactively target stalkers and investigate them before their actions escalate to violence.