While the spying in itself is wrong (and ridiculous), I really hope the courts create some clarity around the issue of deceiving those spied on into intimate relationships--it's unbelievable that that doesn't get immediately and wholly condemned by the police, and indeed wasn't acted on.
Some movement in those cases of environmental activists being spied on by police:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/28/police-investigate-officer-who-infiltrated-environmental-groups
While the spying in itself is wrong (and ridiculous), I really hope the courts create some clarity around the issue of deceiving those spied on into intimate relationships--it's unbelievable that that doesn't get immediately and wholly condemned by the police, and indeed wasn't acted on.