GIRLS THAT'S FUCKING TERRIFYING,, PLEASE FACTORY RESET YOUR PHONES GET NEW ONES IF YOU HAVE TO GET AN INDEPENDENT SIM card WHAT IS HAPPENING
I'M BEGGING YOU
THEY CANT DO THIS TO YOU PLEASE
Literally it's terrifying the ends some people will go to so they can control their child, even when they aren't a child anymore. For 5 years I lived with my grandma who was a complete helicopter parent when it came to online spaces. She used 3 different apps to track my location, phone usage, online activity, any calls or texting, and restrict websites she didn't want me having access to. When I was 16 I moved back in with my mom and she said she would transfer all passwords to my mom and stop tracking me entirely, and that my mom could decide what to do with them (my mom didn't use them cause she's normal and let me delete them). She continued to pay my phone bill for a while just cause she's got a lotta expendable income. 2 years later I break my phone and I have a job so I buy myself a new one, so I call her to make sure all I need to do is transfer my sim card (the screen was cracked to hell and shedding glass into my hands but the old phone was still usable) and she then proceeded to admit she never stopped tracking whatever I was using data for. For 2 years she read every text, saw every call log, and everything I used mobile data for, and didn't tell me. When she told me this she didn't say whether or not she stopped, and when I tried to start paying my own phone bill she tried very hard to convince me not to (hmmm, wonder why 🤔) and I decided I'd wait a bit longer before I paid my own phone bill but to get revenge I used mobile data to search and look at the wildest most inappropriate shit that would make her boomer heart stop. Anyways my point is fuck helicopter parents. It should be considered abuse to not allow someone any modicum of privacy like that. I get trying to protect your child but there's a different between that and what some parents do
