This is the best summary I could come up with:

A UK Parliament report found that devices are being used to “monitor, harass, coerce and control” victims by collecting recordings and images.

“Perpetrators quite often set up a host of different devices in the home,” Jessica Eagleton, Policy and Public Affairs Manager for the charity Refuge, told the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee.

Refuge also reported that “devices gifted to children are used to continue exerting control post-separation and can enable the perpetrator to access audio-visual information and to track the address of the new location the survivor has fled to”.

Concern was also raised at the dangers of victims unwittingly giving away their locations by leaving their devices and accounts connected.

“People now need to think, 'If I go into a refuge, is my smartwatch still connected with my device,” Dr Leonie Tanczer of University College London said.

The committee acknowledged that there was no “silver bullet” for dealing with tech abuse, but concluded: “The Government can take more steps to tackle it by improving the criminal justice response, raising public awareness and convening industry to ensure manufacturers and distributors are mitigating risks through product design”.

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Yeah this happens. A family member was tracked by her abusive husband using these devices before they divorced. He even gave some to her as “gifts” which he used to secretly spy on her.

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