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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.

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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

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

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