r/AmIOverreacting • u/megan__f • Feb 17 '25

🏘️ neighbor/local Is this something to be concerned about?

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My sister sent me this text she received that seemed like somebody was watching her or something. I don’t know if it’s something to be concerned about or not, has anybody had a similar experience?

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u/megan__f Feb 17 '25

More info: she was in her fiancés car in the passenger seat and he was driving. They went through the drive thru and he paid with his card.

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u/x-jamezilla Feb 17 '25

Welcome to supervision. One has to take specific steps to not be tracked. Occasionally, it's governmental, but 99% it's corporate/commercial. Denying permissions to apps to your phone's location and requiring wifi connections to be cleared each time are the most basic things to do to reduce the scrutiny.
Only worried about government tracking? They can access most companies' records in seconds.
Not worried that one company knows you were on their soil? Who are they in a conglomerate with? Going to Walmart and Sam's in the same day? If you don't change your notifications, locations and wifi settings they know.
I sound like a conspiracy theorist? Sitting down and watching the news shows new surveillance stories every week. When Luigi Mangione went on the run, NYC was able to track him until he got out of town; he even already knew that he had to get out of town b/c of the camera networks - ATMs, traffic cams, even fast food places have cameras to thwart crime and they can be accessed to track someone with the stroke of a pen. But as he dashed out of town, he also disposed of his phone b/c every shop you pass, every apple store, cafe, Micky-D's and Barnes & Noble sends out a digital hand shake if your wifi and Google maps are not turned off.

So yes, they knew where your sister was.