Carolyn is right to highlight the line from the letter that says "I rationally agree and would have been horrified to be “tracked” in college by my parents."
And, as she also notes, knowing where someone is doesn't keep them safer. Without tracking, I have made, and received, phone calls that say something like "I just want you to know you're okay, in case you're looking at the news." Nobody would have advised me not to be in Washington Square Park on a random summer afternoon, or stay away from the area around the Empire State Building on a particular morning, and I wouldn't have told Adrian that she should stay away the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I kept going to that park, and walking past the Empire State Building on my way home from work, and we still go to Copley Square (where the Boston marathon ends). Conversely, if one of us had been hurt in one of those incidents, someone in another city hearing about it an hour sooner wouldn't have helped.
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And, as she also notes, knowing where someone is doesn't keep them safer. Without tracking, I have made, and received, phone calls that say something like "I just want you to know you're okay, in case you're looking at the news." Nobody would have advised me not to be in Washington Square Park on a random summer afternoon, or stay away from the area around the Empire State Building on a particular morning, and I wouldn't have told Adrian that she should stay away the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I kept going to that park, and walking past the Empire State Building on my way home from work, and we still go to Copley Square (where the Boston marathon ends). Conversely, if one of us had been hurt in one of those incidents, someone in another city hearing about it an hour sooner wouldn't have helped.