So a spouse could track the other spouse’s location...or kids, etc...right? (Have a friend whose soon to be ex-husband may be doing that to her....he’s a techie, she’s not)
Exactly. But nowadays that can be done easily with iPhone accounts. People want it.
One of the fake things in the movie “monster trucks” was when the guys phone goes with the truck rather than him, the girl says, “no problem. I have an app that will show us where your phone (and the truck) is.”
Not without either his previous permission or a subpoena it does.
It uses a pretty simple security methodology. Change your google account password and your ex can’t see it.