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You sharing with your friends is not the same use case at all.

We’re talking about someone setting up geofencing on their partner so they get notifications when they leave/arrive specific areas. That’s obsessive controlling behavior completely independent of you just making your location available for people to see.

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Hmm, strangely, I simulated this in my head and I would feel a little uncomfortable with the push-nature of this in the worst case. Like if a friend used my location sharing to set fences to see when I'm going to a specific location and measured that, etc.

But if they used the fence around their own home to be like "Hey, when's he near my place so I can see if he wants to come hang" I think I'd like that.

So perhaps, to me, the thing that makes me happy is intent. I bucket these people into high-trust so I expect them to not do the weird one (and they won't even do the latter).

You're assuming he setup the geofence on his partner's phone when that's not a detail actually mentioned. We just know his wife happens has location sharing enabled.

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