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Geo-tracking apps: How are parent-child relations bearing up?

Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids, Google Family Link and Apple's FindMy are fast growing in popularity, handing parents unprecedented powers to monitor their offspring

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Yann Bruna | The Conversation
Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids, Google Family Link and Apple’s FindMy are fast growing in popularity, handing parents unprecedented powers to monitor their offspring. But how are the latter experiencing what previous generations might have labelled as an intrusion into their privacy? Could these devices even hurt youths’ sense of independence?
We set out to answer these questions and more in our research project, which involved a series of one-on-one interviews with 16 parents who geo-tracked their children, and 16 teenagers who were geo-tracked (some of whom

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