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I simply trust him enough

but what people are saying is it has little to do with trust: it’s a utility… in fact, the trust is flipped: i trust my partner to have my location, and only look at it for things like checking how far away i am for my benefit

It feels to me like if you need your partners location on tap, you must first have other problems

you’re allowed to feel that, but that’s absolutely not true. given the safety and utility aspect, it FEELS to me like if you don’t trust your partner to have and not abuse your location data then you must have other problems

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_g_be@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Seems like the underlying tension is wether being surveiled at all is inherently a violation.

If it is, then your partner doing it might feel like a lack of trust.

for my benefit Its not a benefit if you don’t like being tracked

If not, then it’s just a practical tool, might as well use the data if it’s getting captured anyway.

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- pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  surveiled
  
  surveillance implies active, constant, and surreptitious… i would not classify mutual location sharing as any of that: it’s passive, occasional, and well-known and consented to by both parties
  
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  - supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    NO surveillance is truly constant, that would defeat the point of surveillance which is to create the ever present possibility that someone is watching so you begin to subconciously assume you are always being watched.
    
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  - _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If you’re doing this through Google or whichever company is facilitating, then I would say that’s the party doing all of the things listed
    
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