The most intimate three little words you can hear from a romantic partner in 2024? Not those three, the infamous three, but maybe these new ones: “Let’s share locations.” Meaning your cell phone will continuously track your partner’s whereabouts, appearing on a digital map as a tiny moving dot, and vice versa. A modern day homing device, a satellite-fed tracking beacon—but voluntary, and wrapped up in a convenient phone app.
Apple’s Find My feature trickled into the mainstream first in 2009 as a way to locate a lost iPhone, then eventually as an opt-in friend-finder in 2011. Google has its own version for Android. Tracking of every kind has
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