Positioning with GPS Not meeting the "sight" of the stalker regulation law Supreme Court July 30, 19:02
For the first time, the Supreme Court said that the act of acquiring GPS equipment without knowing the location information of the GPS device on the opponent's car was a "guard" prohibited by the stalker regulation law The decision was made. There is no provision regarding GPS in the stalker regulation law, and there is a possibility that there will be an increasing demand for revision of the law.
A defendant, a man in his 40s in Fukuoka prefecture, was accused of "watching" for violating the stalker regulations by installing GPS devices in his wife's car at that time and acquiring the car's location information for about 20 days. ..
Regarding this, Attorney Yamaguchi of the First Small Court of the Supreme Court said, "The stalker regulation law prohibits the act of "watching in the vicinity of the place where the other party is usually living, working, school, etc.". Even when using, the act of observing movements in the vicinity of the opponent should be interpreted as a watch."
On top of that, he dismissed the appeal of the prosecution, showing the first decision that he could not be watched only by the act of acquiring the position information of the car using GPS equipment.
With the spread of devices, the number of stalkers using GPS has been increasing. However, there is no provision regarding GPS in the stalker control law, and there is a possibility that calls for amendments will increase.