Child & family friendliness

[LGro]

Coagulate could be used by people under 18 which are considered children by e.g. the Google Play Families policy, requiring among other things, that an app should

provide an in-app reminder to be safe online and to be aware of the real world risk of online interaction before allowing child users to exchange freeform media or information. You must also provide a method for adults to manage social features for child users, including, but not limited to, enabling/disabling the social feature or selecting different levels of functionality. Finally, you must require adult action before enabling features that allow children to exchange personal information.
Adult action means a mechanism to verify that the user is not a child and does not encourage children to falsify their age to gain access to areas of your app that are designed for adults (that is, an adult PIN, password, birthdate, email verification, photo ID, credit card or SSN).

Source: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9893335

This seems relevant for the location sharing functionality of Coagulate, let's empower families to use Coagulate appropriately.

[Skivling]

There could be an extension of the circles (#12) which is specifically for families and gives parents elevated permissions.

[LGro]

Neat! Are you thinking along the lines of guardians managing the circles for their kids and only allowing location sharing for a select one or few to make sure location is not leaked to others outside these allowed circles?

[Skivling]

I'm thinking the members of a family create a special 'Family Group' and on the guardians' end they can see who is getting location, which circles the child is in, etc
The child's app may have some restricted abilities - such as not being able to share highly sensitive things unless the guardian has marked that person as 'trusted'.
Some guardians may want to 'accept' when the child joins a new circle, just to ensure they aren't sharing personal information with strangers/people they shouldn't. They may also be able to completely manage the child's circles and sharing, depending on what they decide when they set it up.

But there are considerations that need to be made for what is actually going to be worth being in Coagulate, also what guidelines it follows. And ensuring that it is designed to avoid perpetuating bad things like invasiveness, abuse, bad parents, etc.