Make sure you know the etiquette if you keep tabs on friends and family
On every smartphone there sits a stalker’s paradise of location data ready to be shared. This treasure trove is what allows you to watch a food delivery pull up outside your door and check what restaurants are nearby. It can also be used to track you. Location tracking is so precise that it can pinpoint one person in a crowd. And this tech is marketed as convenient, not creepy. What is an acceptable level of online surveillance? I had assumed we all agreed that the ideal was none.
Apple’s Find My app was originally released in 2010 for users to locate a lost phone; it then developed into data sharing between friends. The same year, Facebook unveiled Places, a location feature that let users share their movements. This was also the era of location-based social network start-ups like Foursquare. But what really made tracking seem like harmless fun was the arrival of Snapchat’s location-sharing virtual Map in 2017.
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