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Number 2 sounds like a pure win.

• euyyn 10y ago
  Even for simple things like buying your Christmas present for your SO, you want the app to let you lie sometimes.
  • sliken 10y ago
    Android allows this under debugging, click on "allow mock locations".
    • knz 10y ago
      Or just turn off location services.
      • btown 10y ago
        An abuser would know if the device was failing to report a location, or if the victim were to turn off the system, and could take action accordingly. When user consent can be subverted, otherwise benign opt-in features that are deployed and marketed ubiquitously can have unforeseen consequences. That said there is a utilitarian way to look at this, that for more situations it helps parents to keep their kids safe. The ethical question is far from cut and dry.
        • knz 10y ago
          OP was talking about hiding Christmas shopping so I'm not sure there is a need to spoof locations in this case.
        • sangnoir 10y ago
          > An abuser would know if the device was failing to report a location, or if the victim were to turn off the system, and could take action accordingly. As much as we would like, technology will not solve trust issues in any relationship.
          • austinjp 10y ago
            Well, no, but it doesn't have to facilitate them. Introducing a service that very obviously empowers abusers requires that the abused can be protected.
          • zepto 10y ago
            Perhaps, but if we develop technology to increase people's power over one another it will certainly amplify them.
  • puzzle 10y ago
    You could just temporarily remove them from Trusted Contacts...
    • tempestn 10y ago
      Except then they would wonder why you'd done so.