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Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by colechristensen on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @10:33PM (#40519561)
Basically every person i know in their mid-20s has a small group of people they have always on location sharing with. Usually a partner, a couple of close friends, and a parent or two. They don’t see it as any sort of problem to share this information.

I get the tech focused millennial paranoia about this but when it gets down to it you have nothing to fear if the people you share that with actually respect you and your privacy.

Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by dbish on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:31AM (#40521099)
This is a great example that’s actually not a good thing. The lack of paranoia is going to allow many others to track you for their own purposes like companies and governments and just allow privacy erosion to happen passively.

“You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide” os pretty similar to “you have nothing to fear if someone else chooses not to look”

Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by kelnos on Thursday May 30, 2024 @06:22AM (#40522052)
And the reason this is the case is because pervasive tracking and privacy invasion has become normalized during the formative years of these people's lives. It's not just sad, but actively scary.
Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by colechristensen on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:47PM (#40527860)
My mom and best friend knowing where I am is not scary. What exactly am I supposed to be afraid of?