Don't use much heat, that will destroy them. Just throw them in at 30C and add a cup of white vinegar. It keeps the smell away even if they get wet again. Dry them quickly when finished.
Have been doing this for years, no problems so far.
It stops the communication home for as long as you keep it that way. As for the tracking: data points can still be collected: the Apple location network works entirely by Bluetooth low energy for example. As soon as the app is online again it will send that collected data home and big brother can reconstruct your history.
So if you only care about real time location tracking, that's solved. But not of you care about long term secrecy.
As nobody has mentioned this yet. Vote! On Sunday all Germans vote on their representation in the EU. Vote for the pirate party or another progressive party. Vote out the grandpa's and grandma's that want to "protect" their adult children.
Reminds me of a production bug we could not replicate for the life of me.
The condition could logically not be reached. impossible.
Turns out, in production we had two threads per process, and one would monkey patch a function in the shared process space with a non multi threading safe locking mechanism.
Exactly, the adult world has the same authorities you can get them in trouble with. Just call the police, their employer, spouse or mother and tell them how shameful their behavior is.
I love those speeding aggressive work trucks that have the employers phone number right on them.
"I'm sorry to bother you: so who of you employees is currently usingg that van? You might wanna have a talk withe them."