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Interestingly, this is exactly the type of behavior I would find distasteful. If I do you the favor of watching your dog, I'm going to be pissed if you're spyi

• andrewmunsell 5y ago
  That's a perfectly fine opinion, but not one my family subscribes to. We're all on each others' Find My Friends, and have no problem knowing who is where. I even have non-blood-related friends on there, as do some of my other family members. It's more useful to know when someone is X minutes away when you're being picked up or whatever, so it's certainly not "ugly" to anyone that watches my dog either.
  • nimvlaj30 5y ago
    Okay I'll ask... Did you at least get their consent before tracking them?
    • jdminhbg 5y ago
      If they're on Find My Friends, they had to consent to that proactively. The dog's AirTag is less accurate or constant than what they're providing already.
      • ygjb 5y ago
        Consent isn't universal or eternal. Without commenting on the relationship the commenter has with their family, in general, whenever you give someone something that leaks information, it's worth letting them know and allowing them to make a choice.
        • artificial 5y ago
          The opt-in party can withdraw at any time. Here's more information about how it works: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201087 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201087
      • throwaway3699 5y ago
        My whole family have this sharing on Google Maps. It's becoming more common.
  • VonGallifrey 5y ago
    I always wonder how this sort of situation can happen. I kind of can understand it a little bit within a family, but how do you ask a friend if you can track them 24/7 without sounding like a giant creep? At least here in Germany I would imagine that the only answer to a question like that would be "do you want to resurrect the stasi?". > It's more useful to know when someone is X minutes away Usually a quick message is enough for something like this.
    • yoz-y 5y ago
      A thing I and some friends do is use the “share location for 1 hour” before we meet.
    • LolWolf 5y ago
      I have several friends on Find My; it's just much easier when someone is driving or biking than texting them/knowing if they got home safely. Plus, who cares if my good friend knows where I am at any time? If I didn't want them to, I'd just disable the location. Imo, nobody is looking at my location constantly, and the convenience is worth it. This isn't to say I'd allow this with anyone, or that everyone should do this—far from it—but it's a convenient tradeoff in this case, at least, for my friends.
      • VonGallifrey 5y ago
        > Plus, who cares if my good friend knows where I am at any time? I would guess that my father would have also said "who cares" if his best friend knew where he was at all times. Until he found out that his "best friend" did detailed reports on him to the stasi for Years. You never know with these kind of things. Giving up your privacy for the tiny convenience of not needing to spend 5 seconds to write a message after you arrived home sounds insane to me. > If I didn't want them to, I'd just disable the location. Why is that the logic you apply here? It could easily be applied the other way around: If I want them to know, then I can enable it temporarily. Doesn't that make much more sense than the opposite?
        • thujlife 5y ago
• spoonjim 5y ago
  This would be weird with casual friends but families have their own norms.
• derptron 5y ago
  Why is it ugly if they were fully aware of it? Weird take.
• echelon 5y ago
  You give pervasive tracking an inch, it takes a mile. The overton window on privacy has shifted. It's not showing signs of stopping, either.
  • echelon 5y ago
    I can't edit my comment, but 2005 would be totally shocked that the future has such wonton disregard for privacy.
• rconti 5y ago
  presumably it's also visible on the collar, at least if the subject of the tracking knows what they're looking for.