two hands each holding a phone with a security camera pointing at each other with a cutout of a map in the background

Sherry Howard was eating at an Italian restaurant in Ohio last year when her 28-year-old daughter called asking for some food from the restaurant. Howard was stunned — not at the request but at the fact that her daughter knew where she was.

It turned out she was being tracked — and had been for two years. Ever since Howard went on a solo trip to the Caribbean and her children activated Find My People on her phone, without her knowledge, they had been able to keep tabs on her location.

"It was laughable, but I was shocked," Howard, 53, told me. "To be honest, I didn't know how I felt about it."