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To find the key to your apartment, you can use a tracker. It’s a kind of token which, attached to your keychain, allows you to geolocate it. But its use is now misused as a weapon to track people.
They are devices designed to help us in our daily lives. GPS, plotter, connected beacon, you can find them at all prices on the internet, supposed to allow you to find lost objects or locate animals. But today technologies are misused to spy on or stalk women without their knowledge. Chanel Rizzo was a victim of this last year. She thought she was protected from her violent ex-spouse thanks to a removal procedure ordered by the courts.
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But he continued to follow her. “I hardly left my house anymore”, she recalls. The gendarmes offer to search his vehicle and discover a GPS hidden inside. The object, sold for 60 euros, was connected to the phone of his ex-companion.
Isabelle Pinto, a lawyer specializing in domestic violence, receives more and more clients in this case. She warns women against these technologies transformed into a real weapon to harass.