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A motion detector is far more inferior to precense detectors, most just use milimator wave though.

Never said that it wasn’t easy, it’s just harder than with facial recognition. In theory you could do it correctly in a way that it isn’t indentifiable.

Also this works in places where faces are protected

Considering how big some stores are in countries this doesn’t surpirse me, if a small supermarket near me can already have 20 different ketchups then why would the massive general store in the nearest city not have a wall of sex toys?

And the worst part is that America pulls the rest of the world with it.

In The Netherlands this is pretry common as well, heck in even abroad I have been asked the question

There is no chance she is going to believe that I drive 40-60min without my phone dor mysic lol, but I could try it.

Or I just say that I have an appointment with a client of mine (if she asks), that also works

Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.

They know you are a person and they can call your a certain UUID, but there will be a hard time matching you to your name etc.

Camera's can do face recognition (if your face is even in the database) to know who you are.

This only works until the point where they have your form in a database which they can check...

It is cool for home automation if you can turn it into a presence detection software (do not connect your Homeassistant to the internet though)

I am more worried that she is going to spoil the surprise for herself ...

Me an my GF have been sharing location for years now, it has never been an issue and often been handy to see if one of us is driving from work to home or finding each other in a festival or theme park etc.

But well I kinda wanna surprise here and for that I need to drive somewhere where I normally don't go, so now I gotta find an excuse just incase she checks my location. Or I just turn of my Phone for an hour or two

Remember that we used to have social media's in specific countries, but at least the one I know (Hyves) got bought out by the Americans iirc (or the Chinese)