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by onion2k 2139 days ago
There could be non-shady reasons to do this.

I can't think of one.

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Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the multitude of excercise tracking apps? Tracking is entirely the point of those.

https://www.strava.com/ for example.

Using FindMyiPhone/Android to have more data on what direction a missing person was heading instead of just location pings?
Car insurance Air traffic control Simulations
maybe Pokemon Go?
worldwide parcel shipping?
Uber?