[infotainment]

One person's spying is another person's whistleblowing.

For example, a commonly-held view online is that it should be legal to record interactions with police. By your definition, however, that would be "spying", as the police may not necessarily consent.

[kloop]

A lot of police interactions happen in public, and additionally when police are on duty and interacting with the public they have a reduced expectation of privacy.

It's generally only recording private conversations that's illegal.

It feels like you didn't think about the differences between the two situations at all

[elric]

Come now, it's obvious that sometimes exceptional circumstances warrant the bending or breaking of the rules.