I just found VOTV in the list of apps that can track my location. I couldn't find anyone else talking about this. Is this some kind of lore thing or should I be worried?

Haven't heard any reports of something like this before. The most "tracking" used in-game is just your system time for some events, and that doesn't even mean anything because you can just change it to the right time and date to trigger them in-game.

maybe realism?

yeah bro, they list your ip address at a random point in the game gang.

dw, the arirals just dox you as an event if you have a bad rep with them