Theoritically, is there a way to have a privacy respecting location tracker?

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@InternetGhost

To take this further, imagine this feature is in Signal (or it can be its own app). Imagine they build this into Signal so that someone makes the location request, Signal grabs your coordinates, and it sends it back as a Google Maps link or something.

I know with GMaps you can create a location sharing link that you can share with an app like signal.

@InternetGhost

I would like for something else to exist, but I couldn’t really find privacy respecting alternatives. I figured that was because at some point you need to use a third party to tell you your location, so if that third party is not trusted in your threat model, you’re out of luck.

Have you considered first party Solution like Find my. I have only used it to find devices, but you can easily set up to find people and share locations or setup family sharing.

Regarding privacy and security, apple claims data is end-to-end encrypted and also have documentation on how they keep data anonymous and secure.

I am not sure if this is a good alternative to Life360, but if they use an Apple device it is worth considering.