So it's now her mission in life to ensure the police take stalkers more seriously.
Confronting a stalker can can be dangerous since stalkers are likely to be irrational and unpredictable.
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He said 25-45% of stalkers will be violent towards their victims at some point during the stalking episode.
As Ms Ramm's case demonstrates, many stalkers threaten their victims from abroad, often from countries without stalking laws.
ECONOMIST: The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims
The study commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) suggested 97.6% of gamekeepers, deer managers and stalkers were men.
Having OCD is not the same as 'being obsessed' about a person - and we certainly aren't like stalkers.
So, earlier today you post a warning about stalkers, and now you help your stalkers zero in on your address?
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Shooting stags is allowed in the season by stalkers armed with licensed rifles and with the permission of the landowner.
Stella wants to find out how the police can learn to recognise the most dangerous stalkers and stop them becoming killers.
This caused the city authorities to rethink the way in which stalkers were viewed and treated by the criminal justice system.
Police advise stalkers to get a basic deer stalking certificate (DSC) and companies run by professional stalkers offer training for the DSC.
Mr Afzal is also seeking greater use of voluntary disclosure of information about suspected stalkers by agreement with mobile-phone companies and ISPs.
ECONOMIST: The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims
For some stalkers, the internet is just a tool of the trade.
ECONOMIST: The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims
Stalkers see their activities as an important part of land management - a key method of regulating the number of deer in the wild.
But 80% of stalkers are men and a lot of those do become dangerously obsessed, and it can be very scary, especially for young women.
Her campaign to raise awareness of the danger posed by stalkers is being supported by national domestic violence charity Refuge and her MP Greg Clark.
From stalkers to identity theft, recording such information (and to unlock its true value, posting it online) makes us vulnerable to all manner of bad actors.
Rachel MacKenzie, a psychologist who runs a behaviour programme for stalkers in the Australian state of Victoria, says that many now harass their victims through the internet.
ECONOMIST: The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims
Valerie Caproni, General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, complained to the House Judiciary Committee in February that her agency lacked powers to gather evidence on stalkers using peer-to-peer and social networks.
ECONOMIST: The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims
The site IStalkU.com provides a lot of information about how to control your smartphone and media settings, but combine this with automatic picture uploading and your privacy becomes seriously at risk for stalkers.
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The misery they inflict seems to motivate cyber-stalkers.
ECONOMIST: The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims
Smartphone photos often leave a location imprint on images which allow stalkers to find locations including home address, workplace, favorite restaurants, and play spots, and even to develop a schedule of your daily activities.
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Stalkers, while most of you are angry and upset (which we understand) please know that since December 2011 the entire Stalker team (myself included) was working without pay on Stalker 2 while new investors were scouted.
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"We have to learn how to say to each other: 'Technology has created a situation where we are treating each other as though we were stalkers, but I don't want to think of you that way, '" Dr. Turkle says.
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Lord Wigley, a co-sponsor of the amendment, said many serious offenders - such as stalkers and rapists - were able to get away with "ongoing, unacceptable" behaviour because courts only examined individual instances of their behaviour, and did not take into account the "cumulative impact" of long-term patterns of their behaviour on victims.
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