[paganel]

It partially works as in it gives people who live in a technological society (like ours) the illusion and hope that technology can solve problems that don't have immediate technology-related solutions (if at all).

Tracker apps are partially what the massive TSA-implementation programme was in the States post 9/11, i.e. security theater combined with the illusion that the dominant paradigm of that time (force/projecting power in the early 2000s, technology in our present times) is a silver bullet.