# What are your rights if you are being followed/monitored by a private investigator?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-if-you-are-being-followed-monitored-by-a-private-investigator/611443>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-if-you-are-being-followed-monitored-by-a-private-investigator/611443 "2012-02-01T18:15:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Animastryfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-if-you-are-being-followed-monitored-by-a-private-investigator/611443/41 "2012-03-06T04:32:22Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> Have you people never seen a bad movie?
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> You need to get the investigator following you through busy crowds, preferably in a European capital (if your budget’s tight, Vancouver can double for Prague). But the point is to be able to run down wet cobblestoned streets, dodging flower vendors and beautiful peasant girls with baguettes.
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> Then turn the tables on him by evading him (I enjoy the “bribe the local urchins to delay him” tactic). Then double back and take him by surprise in an alley behind the boulangerie. After you’ve disarmed him, you can torture the name of his employer out of him.

What places in Vancouver can double for Prague?

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