From family locator app Life360 to Find My iPhone and Find My Device, increasing numbers of us track the whereabouts of our children, our ageing parents, sometimes even our partner and our friends 24 hours a day. With these apps, location must be consented to by both users to be visible.
It's hard to get figures on how many people in Australia are tracking others or being tracked. Apple says it doesn't have access to that info and Life360 didn't respond to SBS requests for information, though it seems huge numbers of us are doing it.
As is often the case, it's not so much the technology that's problematic, it's how we use it.
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