When I was a teenager and wanted to go do boyish teenager things, like hang out at $ABANDONED_BUILDING, I used such apps to mock my location to the library, as my parents were tracking it using Life360.
That raises more questions than it answers.
“Thou shall spy on thy family’s whereabouts no fewer than thrice hourly, and thou must use ReligionFamilyTracker™, at $19.99 per week, to do so.”