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Google is making it easier for your close friends and family to keep track of you with its new Trusted Contacts app for Android. The idea is simple: assign some of your contacts as “trusted” and they’ll be able to request your location and see your current activity status. If you don’t respond to a location request within five minutes, it will be automatically shared with these contacts. It’s basically Google’s version of the Weasley clock in Harry Potter. The general idea is to be able to make sure loved ones are safe, though it’s not hard to see it coming…

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