Although technically an idiot who carried his phone with him and took almost no forensic precautions the police officer Wayne Couzens who murdered Sarah Everard

Although technically an idiot who carried his phone with him and took almost no forensic precautions the police officer Wayne Couzens who murdered Sarah Everard probably had various levels of access to digital privilege that allowed him to plan the abduction and killing. At least that's the discussion my class brought up recently when we were talking about LOVEINT and stalking by people who operate CCTV cameras and so on. Why do we persist with this incredibly naive assumption that behind digital power are actors who deserve an assumption of benevolence first, and the odd rogues are just bad-eggs? When it comes to this abortion issue, Google are in a privileged position of power and should be handled accordingly. Surely, if we think "zero trust" is a fit way to conduct cyber-security, it also applies to civic security? Shouldn't anyone who handles public data be positively vetted to within an inch of their sanity and themselves be placed within panopticon of radical transparency? Protecting any vulnerable group, including women, from digital harms requires a change of mind-set, a new kind of digital literacy.