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I will never forget what it was like to grow up in the 80s. As a child often I was at some kind of child care. After school programs, or a neighbors house. I r
by supportengineer 1y ago
I will never forget what it was like to grow up in the 80s. As a child often I was at some kind of child care. After school programs, or a neighbors house. I remember what it was like, wanting my parents to pick me up. I lived in a place that was surrounded by bullies and abusive religious zealots. Often times I would be staring out the window or looking towards the road wondering when my loving parents would come and get me and take me away from the nightmare situation. Endless hours staring, wondering, hoping. Praying for them to pick me up and take me away.
And that is why I happily allow my wife and my children to track me at all times.
So they will never feel that kind of pain and despair that a young child once felt.
- cyanydeez 1y agoi mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Portalnd.
- lagadu 1y agoThe fascist government won't need you to enable tracking, they can have the corporation that makes your OS silently gather it and give it to them, or simply have the phone carrier do it, again silently to the one carrying the device. We're already all carrying a tracking device with us, willingly.
- leptons 1y agoThe government can also just set up their own cell tracking towers, cut out the middleman.
- danudey 1y agoOr just mandate that the telcos do it and make it illegal to tell anyone about it.
- ruined 1y agowhy would they need to do that? that's just how cell towers work. the government can and does also buy the location data on the market like anyone else.
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- cyanydeez 1y agoyeah, the important part is that the government via third party surveillance gets much of the domestic spying they need without "technically" breaking the law, even though if they directly did any of the activities they would be breaking the law.
- leptons 1y agoAnd yet they do that all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_law_enforcement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_...
- david_shaw 1y ago> i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Portalnd. The phones (GPS) and cell networks (towers) have your location anyway. The article -- and what the parent comment was talking about -- is social location sharing. Although citizen tracking is a valid concern, turning on "Find my Friends" isn't going to make you any more vulnerable.
- Rebelgecko 1y agoIIRC some of the social location sharing options have sold data in the past, eg Life 360 (I think they still sell data but claim that they've started making it aggregated/anonymous)
- stavros 1y agoI have location services off, so at least my phone doesn't usually have my location, and neither does Google.
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- g-b-r 1y agoWhy not only letting them track you when you're going to pick them up, or better when they ask you to?
- dgunay 1y agoIn addition to the other arguments presented here, I have 24/7 location sharing enabled with my wife so that neither of us has to actively remember to check our phones all the time. And if it's potentially an emergency, it is still active if one of us is incapacitated.
- pcthrowaway 1y agoOr.. just messaging when you're on your way? And not leaving them in abusive situations? I'm actually not opposed to direct location sharing among one's loved ones, but I don't think being in terrible situations and praying for your parents to remove you from them is a good argument in favour of location sharing.
- z0r 1y agoWould your parents have picked you up if real time location sharing existed? I understand your story is emotional and personal, but using it as an argument why you want to share your location at all times is a bit of a non-sequitur.
- supportengineer 1y agoIt was more about not knowing where they were, or when they were coming. With technology, children can always know where their parents are, not to mention they are only one text or call away.