Anyone not tracked via their phone?

[Bighouseinthecountry25]

As far as I know I can't be location tracked. DH and I can't track each other and I have Snapchat to keep an eye on my teens but I don't share my location. I don't have a particularly exciting life but I like to be under the radar. Surely I'm not the only one as it seems to be the norm. We all have androids as well so no fine my phone iPhone thing.

Yes, me.
It's very creepy.

Everyone using a smartphone is being tracked , it is impossible to avoid it

If you're using Android, your location is tracked by Google approximately every 4 minutes, even if you have location history turned off.

If you're remotely interested in privacy, I wouldn't recommend an Android phone.

I do us location tracking with my partner and friends on a mutual basis and it's occasionally very helpful.

I know the big companies are tracking me, hence using mum's net on my burner phone after the changes to t and c, but no one I know is location tracking me.

You’ve got a burner phone for MN? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

We don't track either. We once spent a weekend with a bunch of friends, one of whom spent the whole time updating us on where his wife was (she's just gone into b and q!). That was fairly creepy! Freely oddly voyeuristic even though we weren't doing it ourselves

We do sometimes share WhatsApp locations eg if I'm out for a run or one of us is driving home and traffic is iffy. But generally we don't. DD is only 5 though. I'm not sure how I'll feel when she's older and out and about without us.

As a family, we don't share locations. Including our teens as I think it would be hypocritical since I have an aversion to be tracked.

Its also a hangover from DHs job as for security purposes they are discouraged from having location tracking.

I don't track my friends or family members and they don't track me.

But Google tracks all of us!!

Absolutely no way I want to be tracked or track my DH! I find it completely unnecessary and inappropriate.

I didn’t even know it was a thing until I was having coffee with a a friend who said ‘Oh Beverly is just down the road, shall we ask her to join us’. Turns out they track each other. Not sure how it works. Don’t want to know, don’t want any part of it.

We use Life 360. Nothing sinister between us. We’re not “tracking “ each other. Often one or other is out on our own with the dog, quite remote, reassuring to me to have it. Never really look at it but it’s there if I needed it.

Well, and Mn and being a drugs kingpin…

Nobody (apart from Google, etc) is tracking me as nobody cares where I am. If I disappear in the open countryside, I might be glad that the Powers That Be will at least be able to find my body though.

6 years ago, but still gives you an insight....

My daughter and I have 360, she's away at uni. We use it to check when the other is at home so we can facetime, also comes in handy when she's on the train, I can see when to leave the house to pick her up. It was her idea and when she wants to she can delete it.

The only “person” with an active tracking device in my house is the cat…!

My husband and I use Life 360. He walks to work down remote country lanes. Once I can see he is safely in work I don't look at it again. I don't find it creepy at all. I don't track my children though (late teens) I'd quite like to as they drive at night but they don't want me to and I respect that.

Dh and I don't track each other. That would be wierd.

I track my kids because they are 12 and 14 and I like to know how lost they are getting with scouts or when the bus journey to school is unreliable.

I find it creepy too, sure my phone might be tracking me but doesn't mean a human is watching

And no I don't track children

The camera doorbell is something I hate DH knows whether I'm in or out. It's got audio too.

If someone wants to track you they can I've decided.

I have an iPhone and my fiancé and I do have location sharing enabled.

I don‘t care that he could theoretically „track“ me.

I use a smartphone and therefore assume that some entity is constantly tracking me anyway. And I happen to trust my fiancé considerably more than google/apple etc.

Me too. I find it loathsome and have declined all offers of trackers etc. I didn't track my teens either. I asked them to let me know where they were and we built trust that way. They always had their phones on them, so if they were in difficulty (not that this ever happened), then they knew they could always phone me. They are now young adults and I definitely do not want to know where they are every minute of the day.

DP and family members have offered me those weird apple disc things that you can attach to keys or 'slip in your handbag' and I always say no. I think it is really ghastly to have your every move observed by someone else. And yes I am well aware that mobile phone companies and big tech etc all know what we are up to from a data tracking perspective, but that is different to being tracked by another individual.

I appreciate that lots of people find it comforting but it is very definitely not for me.

@CountryQueen its my phone for work so I use it for mn, also means I don't spend too much time on here!

I'm not. The only person who would be likely to do it would be my husband but, because he's a normal human, he wouldn't dream of infringing my right to privacy in such a heinous way.
Neither of us would ever dream of doing this - in my view, it would be grounds for divorce.

Genuine question - if you're using a burner in your regular location, and can still be tracked by big tech on it... Is it not just a second phone?

As in, a burner phone is one you use briefly and then destroy, and move on. Right?