The rise of ‘fambushing’, as kids monitor where their parents go

by · Australian Financial Review

Jenny Singer
Sep 9, 2026 – 5.00am

One night in December, Abbie Pruitt went Christmas shopping for her children. She didn’t want to raise their suspicions, so she opened the location-sharing app her family uses and adjusted the settings so her precise geolocation wouldn’t be visible to anyone.

Not five minutes later, she got a call from her daughter, Kylie, demanding to know where she was and why her location wasn’t visible on the Life360 app.

Loading...

Washington Post

Save
Log in or Subscribe to save article
Share

Copy link

Copied

EmailLinkedInTwitterFacebook

Copy link

Copied

Share via...
Gift this article

Subscribe to gift this article

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber? Login

Read More

Latest In Arts & Culture

Fetching latest articles