My mom and dad are tracking my location, please help?

[Anonymous]

So my mom has my gmail account logged in, in her mobile.

My family is so damn conservative and narrow minded and wouldn't let me go out anywhere.

So yesterday I went to my friend's house for a party about which I lied to my parents that I had extra classes in college. Later I came home late. So they suspected me and somehow found where all I went that day using my gmail account activity.

She has also asked me not to switch off my location and mobile data.

She said that if I turn it off, it will be shown as missing activity and that she'll confirm that I've gone out somewhere.

She also said that if I'm not going it anywhere without their knowledge, I wouldn't turn them off.

Is there any app or any technique with which I can manipulate my location to my parents.
I really need privacy.

[SpacedCharr]

A few questions: do you live in a progressive area, do you have people you can stay with, and do you trust your local law enforcement?

Suggested actions:
- find a local women's shelter or youth shelter.
- under the guise of volunteering near there (try to hide that you're doing this, your parents will not like this), ask if they can help victims of non-physical parental abuse.
- explain your situation, provide evidence (screen shots, transcripts, etc)
- prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

Also, move out and go No Contact for at least six months to a year. Make yourself known to local law enforcement as a good kid. Your parents sound like the type to lose their chill if you move out.

Above all else: be safe, keep your sense of self, and know you are right. You have EVERY right to privacy.

You're goddamn 18-24 (I think?). You're legally an adult.

[aWes0MeNeSs]

This is absurd behavior from your parents considering you're 18+.

However, if you're still living under their roof, there may not a whole lot you can do without a fight and possibly being kicked out. I think the best thing you can do is try to get out of there ASAP.

Is there anything you've done to violate your parents' trust that would lead them to feel the need to do something like this? Not that it's not still a bit ridiculous, but if this is the case, maybe you can resolve the issue by trying to earn back their trust.

[an0nymouz]

This girl is 18. I know a mother who doesn't give a late-twenties girl her phone back.
She has access to her phone. And controlling everything.

[aWes0MeNeSs]

@an0nymouz That's pretty strange and controlling to me. Is the late 20's girl by any chance mentally disabled? The only case of something like this I've known of that I could think of involved a girl with mental disabilities that caused her to behave more like a child, and she was not responsible or "with it" enough to hold down a job or take care of herself on her own.

[an0nymouz]

@WhiteShoulder Could this be the reason?

[an0nymouz]

If that is the case. is this mother fair? This girl does have some issues. I don't think she is mentally unstable tho. She can't walk, she is not permanently disabled. Since she can't do a job and can't look after herself right now, her mother is taking care of her. Can her mother invade her privacy because of it? This mother not only has access to her emails, she has access to everything. Because of that reason, even the other party who talks with her daughter, doesn't have any privacy.

[aWes0MeNeSs]

@an0nymouz I personally think it is majorly overstepping boundaries on the mother's part.

[GuildLegend435]

first off, who is paying for this phone?

if your parents are paying for it, give the phone back to them, get a job, and get your own phone. if they own and pay for the phone, its their phone, you're just being allowed to use it. (sorry not my words, this is what the judge will say to you)

if you're paid for this phone and pay to keep it connected, backup your data/pics you want saved, export your contact list, and then wipe the phone back to factory default, that should cure it.

if you own it, there should be no reason to sneak around.

[andreasderjuengere]

Something is wrong with your family (you included, unfortunately).
Otherwise you would trust each other.
Deposit your phone somewhere, and use another one (or none)?
There's now still a risk that they call you and you don't notice.
The better way: negotiate the 'terms and conditions'; having been 'caught' with a lie before, will not give you a strong starting position, though.
My thought: do you not rather seek independence, than privacy?

[BlacklightShade]

Since they want to ankle monitor you, buy a burner phone, leave your old phone in a locker at a school or gym, get a friend to create a new google account for you that won't verify against your old account, do not sync your new account with your old phone, leave an outgoing voicemail greeting like "hello, ..., oh hi!, I'm in the library now so I gotta go! byee"

[Paris13]

College, you Say? Tell them you are Not High Sch cooler Here, Dear, But a Young Mature Adult and Try and get them to Understand where you Stand. many parents do feel though as long a you Live under their Rough Roof they have the Say. Try and Compromise until you Hit the Road to Go Alone on Your Own. xx

[UncleBumbleF_K]

https://www.lifewire.com/fake-gps-location-4165524

www.ikream.com/.../how-to-fake-gps-location-on-iphone-33149

[wankiam]

18-24 it says... how about you get your own phone... i had been left home two years when i was 18 so you must see that i think this is partly of your own making

[wankiam]

@Kimmmm1 when i walked out i had no money and nowhere to live... actually the econmy of where i was living in northern england held less hope for the young as it does today but well done on just reading the 80s headlines and not bothering to delve a little deeper oh and we had much higher unemployment to go with our deprived background too

[wankiam]

@Kimmmm1 perhaps you would like to tell me how my generation doesn't care about the enviroment too without factoring in the fact i was an eco warrior before you was born and helped to get the ban on fox hunting too or would you like to also maybe assume i listen to soft rock and eighties shit pop when i actually probably have more progressive taste than you do... i id o like to be patronized... dont you too?

[wankiam]

@Kimmmm1 that was the 60 and early seventies... the early eighties were very depressed so maybe you listened to the wrong people or didn't ask them what year they was talking about

[wankiam]

as for 20 grand houses... i was offered one for 9 in 1986 and that would have been just as much as today if you allow for inflation and could i afford it? no... like i said it wasn't all gearge michael club tropicana and everyone driving a red porsche

[wankiam]

@Kimmmm1 victim? no just frustrated because you chose my post to spout a load of ill informed rubbish but its fine... i can just clean it all up and see if the asker actually has anything to comment rather than you

[Kimmmm1]

Ill informed rubbish. Okay. 9k in 1980 equates to 38k now. Tell me again how it's ill informed rubbish.

[wankiam]

@Kimmmm1 because that is based on todays average earning... back then the average earnings in the deprived north were way under a national average and bear in mind we didn't have minimum wage to fall back on

[John_Doesnt]

So just create another gmail account and get a VPN app. It takes like 1 minute. When you said "they're tracking me" I assumed you meant they had a GPS installed on your body. But just reading your emails and mobile location? Create duplicate accounts and get a VPN, simple solution here.

[Kimmmm1]

Change the password on your Gmail account and it will log it out on all devices.

[Kimmmm1]

Since the pity party guy is so against ill informing people but deleting my factual comments I'll say it here.
In 1980 it was 3.96 years wages to buy a house.
In 2015 it was 6.3 years wages to buy a house

[an0nymouz]

That is not going to happen. Google will sent message to that phone. She is safe if her parents can't access her phone. Otherwise they can reset the password again.

[Anpu23]

If you are over 18, get your own phone service and attach a new Google account. Leave the one they pay for (with call and text forwarding) someplace else and do what you want.

[nerms123]

If they pay for your rent etc. there’s not much you can do except move out or disappear and run away from home

[BrotherFrost]

If you are over 18 that might be a bit much, but it's still their roof you are living under so you have to respect their rules. Don't like it? Find a job and move out. If i was in their shoes and you tried to mislead me, you'd be out of the house the next day after i find out about it. And you would be lucky if i let you pack the things i bought for you.

[WalterRadio]

Here is what you do about it: Don't lie.

Your age says you are over 18, so if you are, then what you do about it is to move out and pay your own rent, living expenses, utilities, and phone. That way you can do what you want.

[Luukas]

Fake GPS
play.google.com/.../details

Go settings if Android

Go system

Then go about the phone

Then open software information

Find build number and click it So long that you get developer setting

Put it on

And find Fake location application

Click it and select that installed app.

Then go to that app and select fake location

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

If they aren't allowing you out to go anywhere that is falsely
Imprisonment if they need to know where your going all the time
and your over age 18 you need to save up and get your own place
that is ridiculous of them to do that to you.

[broncobryan]

So do you still live at home? I'm guessing so. Dont like it, get a job and move the fuck out, simple.

[Liam_Hayden]

Get a second phone and auto forward to it. Leave your current phone where you say you will be.

Your age is listed as 18-24. That seems a bit old to have your whereabouts tracked like this.

[OlderAndWiser]

If they are tracking you through your phone, then why don't you get your own phone, and your own apartment, etc., and be free of them.

[WhiteShoulder]

You’re over 18. Just turn off the location feature and go wherever you want. What are they gonna do?

What state are you in?

[Cocacolaaddict]

Assuming she's from America

[WhiteShoulder]

@Cocacolaaddict true

[Miristheiss]

LOL, you confess to lying to them and think they are out of line to not trust you.
Move out or live by their rules.

[buttcrackjoe]

Besides the phone (reset the phone to factory settings should do it) Check the obd2 port in your car for a plug in car tracker its usually below the steering wheel.

[Janncis]

The most simple thing to doisgo back 20 years and leave your phone back home. So you won't be breaking there rulles and they won't get any wiser xD

If your good with tech, you can spoof your location so it appears to be an other.

[Bman4907]

if you weren't on their dime, this would be bad on them, but you're on their dime and you're lying to them. You are in college now, grow up. Be the adult your parents want you to be. Never mind, just be an adult in general.