The moment location sharing comes up, an image appears: the blue dot a jealous partner checks over and over, the app selling your movements, the relative who cannot let go. That mistrust is healthy. Location sharing has been abused so thoroughly that two very different things ended up confused with each other.
Being watched means being permanently visible, without having really agreed to it, to someone who never had to ask. Sharing your location for your own safety is the exact opposite: you open a window, for people you have chosen, for as long as you decide, and you close it afterwards. The same word covers a completely inverted balance of power.
In practice, with SHARIXY, your location only exists during a trip you started, or during an alert. Outside those moments there is nothing to see, literally: nothing is recorded, nothing is stored. Nobody can look up where you are just because they feel like it, ourselves included. And when the trip ends, the sharing stops dead.
The right way to judge any location sharing is to ask three questions. Who sees me? Only the contacts I name. When? Only while I have decided so. Can I cut it off? At any moment. As long as those are the answers, it is not surveillance. It is a safety net you set up yourself, and that you alone are holding.