It's their "Hallyu" business rolling out 5-min stars and cheap plastic surgery which encourage this kind of obsession for profit.

I would agree with you if this measure weren't for convicted stalkers, which means that the alternative would be a prison sentence. This is by far more humane and allows the convict to at least live a normal life if he behaves.

This is not mass surveillance. If you wanna see mass surveillance, check your nearby ALPR or CCTV.

I mean, reading the article, it’s specifically for victims of people who have court ordered ankle monitors. This isn’t like tracking non-convicted citizens… these individuals have been sentenced in a court of justice to having their privacy reduced by being tracked at all times, instead of being locked up in a prison cell. This is just notifying someone who has reason to need to know about data that’s available. I don’t have much problem with this…

FWIW, this seems ripe for data collection and field testing for free. (unless it's a paid sub, then that's worse)

Exploiting abuse survivors to test a surveillance system is a new low —even for government. 🖕🏼

Did you even read the article?

Here, I'll help you:

The app’s effectiveness depends on courts ordering suspects to wear electronic tags, something that remains relatively rare in South Korean stalking cases.

Police arrested 29,404 people on stalking charges across 2024 and 2025. Authorities made 1,187 applications for electronic monitoring during that period, but courts approved only 427.

Your "surveillance system" is court-ordered ankle monitors for known stalkers. Which, sure, is surveillance. You know, for a convicted stalker.

Whether the ones who were stalked want to know where their stalker is might be a different story, but there's this cool thing you can do with apps where you turn off notifications and hide the app somewhere you never go. That way they don't have to see where the stalker is and they still get the benefit of "if that distance falls below 1km, police and probation authorities receive an alert and contact the victim."

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.

That's a lot cooler than the absolutely nothing they do in the US for stalking victims.

...and a great security/relief for victims. I'm a vivid apologetic for privacy and security, but this seems like an acceptable thing.

People seem to be fine to be transparent and 24/7 surveilleid with their phones. Some even seem to be fine to install doorcams from US-bigtech or spy-devices that can switch on a light. Heck, they even pay for those!

This at least is a vers useful application of privacy invasion.

You know what? I'm OK with a panopticon specifically for convicted stalkers. I realize the potential for a slippery slope, but I think the risk is worth it in this one case.

It only shows their location within a certain range.

And considering that this is a punishment for violating someone else's privacy I can get behind this.

Living on Earth is a nightmare from a privacy perspective.

They have space binoculars pointed at you & AI is allowing them to transcribe everything you say into words even they can understand

Time to grab the flame thrower

Uno reverse.

Fun fact: Waluigi is famously the evil version of Luigi

South Korea gives corporate employees app to track their CEO?

Like another commenter said. Stalking victims already have to move to avoid their stalkers. This puts that responsibility on the offender rather than the victim. And a good relief for the victims

I have no idea, but if I had to guess based on a couple of court cases that came up on youtube, the stalker has some carve out where they can go to work, but they have to take very inconvient ways to get there to minimize proximity to the victim.

The judge would probably make stipulations in fringe cases like that.

I think you're joking, but in case you're not... This is just like the paradox of tolerance, everyone has a right to privacy and freedom but if they violate other's rights, society will in exchange take away theirs. We don't (generally) call imprisoned criminals "victims of kidnapping" either.

No.

What if you shut the hell up and believed victims?

Counter terrorist win

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.