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“Path” was briefly trumpeted by the government, before immediately being roundly criticised by women’s charities and campaigns.
This gizmo aims to get us to log our “loved ones” as “guardians” on our phones; we’re expected to post details of a journey, and if we deviated from that or stopped moving altogether, they’d be alerted.
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