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>Because Trusted Contacts works even if a phone is offline, Thelma requests Elliot’s location and in five minutes can see that his last known location was in th
by imh 10y ago
>Because Trusted Contacts works even if a phone is offline, Thelma requests Elliot’s location and in five minutes can see that his last known location was in the middle of the canyon.
The cynic in me thinks this whole use case is intended to normalize the idea of a company always knowing everywhere you go. See? Privacy is unsafe!
- moxious 10y agoHasn't this already been the case for some time? What's remarkable to me is how late in the game they're making this tracking available to us as a useful feature. Relative to ad targeting I'm not sure there's anything new here.
- viraptor 10y ago> normalize the idea of a company always knowing everywhere you go This doesn't really make sense. Google already has this information. They're sharing what they already had access to with contacts you select. On the other hand, there was an interesting feature a few years ago, where you could share your location with friends without special requests. Since then it has been moved from a separate google service to google+. What I'm saying is - this is nothing new. It's actually a new, restricted version of what's been available and happening for a long time.
- imh 10y agoI meant normalize in the social sense that people become more comfortable with google tracking them everywhere instead of feeling creeped out by it. It doesn't have to be new. Most, or at least a large fraction of, google maps and android users would probably be appalled to realize how extensively they're being currently tracked.
- viraptor 10y agoI heard that opinion for quite a while already. I wonder if it still holds up. Do people still get creeped out, considering how in-your-face google now is? I don't know many "normal" users, so don't have an answer really.
- ap22213 10y agoYes and no. They may have access to it from Android devices. But, this allows them to also do so from other devices. Also, this likely allows them to track kids whereabouts, bypassing COPPA via implied consent.
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- ComodoHacker 10y agoNo, it's intended to tell a company who's your closest people.