[HN Gopher] The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing
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       The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing
        
       Author : FromTheArchives
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-10-05 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | supportengineer wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | lagadu wrote:
           | The 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.
        
           | david_shaw wrote:
           | _> 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.
        
         | g-b-r wrote:
         | Why not only letting them track you when you're going to pick
         | them up, or better when they ask you to?
        
           | dgunay wrote:
           | In 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.
        
       | m-s-y wrote:
       | The article's first narrative revolves around a phone being held
       | captive in a police station for days because the station was
       | closed for the weekend?
       | 
       | What kind of police station maintains business hours?
        
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