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And provider of whatever service you use to share your location. Being a bit paranoid about your privacy in this day and age is not just fearmongering and tinfoil-hats.
Or communicate in advance that it'll take 30 minutes for you to find your shit and then meet up at a cafe, by car, at lobby or whatever. Live location doesn't add anything to that, assuming it even works reliably enough inside buildings.
Yeah, seriously, how did society function before GPS?
Society has apparently forgotten the good old 'call me when you get there'-thing. My wife travels by car with our kids now and then for 300-400km at a time and it's nice to get messages/calls like "we're at X, stopped for coffee" or "we got here". That's all I need and it's also a part of relationship and communication. There's no value on following a dot on the map. They even had a small accident one time and I heard about it soon enough. Even if I had their live location it would mean absolutely nothing as they were over an hour away, it was way more important to get proper help there before notifying me instead of getting distracted by my calls/messages at that time.