[sparrowInHand]

And companys would never bring the full instruments to force on a single person. PIs etc, psycho-terror and so on and so forth..

[worewood]

The Ebay stalking case comes up to mind

[ceejayoz]

Which only came to light because they were shockingly inept about it.

That case absolutely made me wonder about how many big corporations have successfully executed more subtle versions of the tactic.

[sparrowInHand]

There is a name for that kind of state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic