Big brother is watching you… doing that

Sometimes senior police make remarks of such sheer stupidity that they appear deliberate; a deliberate attempt say something that will make the law look like such an ass that they will have to resign and run off to a saner career carrying a large payout.

Whatever the case, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller set the bar very high when he appeared on Sydney’s Radio 2GB this morning and floated using a mobile phone app to record sexual consent between two partners — an app he suggested could be run by a private company.

With unusual presence of mind for a senior police officer, Fuller at least added “the app could be a terrible idea”, but the genie is out of the bottle.

There’s the idea of an app itself. A…