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AirTag Competitor Tile Getting Acquired by Location Sharing App Life360
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The irony is my kid driving 85-90mph on a freeway for 10-15 minutes a newer driver is far more likely to kill him or get in an accident than a text to voice being read to him.
Furthermore if checking up on your son or seeing what they are doing is micromanaging that means this poster literally has zero interest in his child nor does he ever advise him or guide him since that would be micromanaging.
Sorry but I care more about my kids than that.
Thankfully my father made sure to do some of the same things for me that I do for my kid which I can absolutely say is why I am where I am in the world and I woudl bet dollars to donuts this poster isn't close.
Scumbags gotta flock to scumbags it seems.
Guess where they got the 200 million to buy that whinny Title tracker company from?
themarkup.org
Guess where they got the 200 million to buy that whinny Title tracker company from?
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users – The Markup
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
themarkup.org
Have you not read the memo? Only full time tracking guarantees your parenting success. Children and other family members need to be traced at all times to an Orwellian degree.
Who knew you either had to track never or the only other option was "at all times". Hopefully someday one could decide to track only when they deemed necessary. Hope people understand the sarcasm here. Never I have I ever known any parent to track their kids "at all times".Have you not read the memo? Only full time tracking guarantees your parenting success. Children and other family members need to be traced at all times to an Orwellian degree.
And especially not via the company that seems to sell location data for a living, right?
Personally I couldn't care less if I am tracked, nor do I care if they sell that data, but to each his own
Oh of course you’d say that. To me, a safety tracking service that sells the location data of those you want safe is a perversion in itself.
Really I mostly say it because I am just not that important in life and quite honestly I don't do anything that interesting that someone would want to find out.
I also realize that if I give information to a corporation then they are going to do what they want with that information.
I am concerned about technology that is 'here to help us', and the people manufacturing it is all about 'helping themselves to all of our data'.
I'm not scared to walk around, I am smart enough to know that becoming 't he product' is so easy in this world with few rules on what 'they' can do with MY data. Forewarned is forearmed. Data blocking USB dongles are rather inexpensive. And 'Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me'. I mean, usually...
Life360 isn't exactly "helping themselves." Their privacy policy extensively identifies how the company uses and shares customer data. Customers are "paid" (via reduced prices) for use of their data. If someone is uncomfortable with how their data may be used, they don't have to use the product. Those particularly sensitive or concerned about their location data, driving data, etc. probably won't want to use the service after reading the privacy policy. However, others will be more than happy to sign off on the privacy policy as it allows them to get a valuable service (to them) for zero or low cost. A service and savings they feel is worth more than the "cost" of having their data shared.
True, but with no limits and 'you knew what you were signing up for' being what you are saying, it makes me even more concerned for their customers.
Google, and Apple, were caught saving users conversations from their 'intelligent assistants'. Google, as I remember, was even caught having employees mocking and sharing customer's private conversations, including, reportedly, intimate situations (bed room 'activities').
I signed up for '23 and me', and was shocked to see that they might use MY DNA data to feed to a national DNA database. Not that I'm a criminal, which is a simplistic view of that cooperation, but my DNA contains both the history, and FUTURE of my life. It has the ability to make me a 'profit center', where a corporation could siphon data from the DNA database, and comb it for people that could be subject to direct marketing based on their possible genetic vulnerabilities, hawking their 'solution' wonder drugs. Corporations aren't the camel pushing its nose under the tent, they are seeking to be the bull charging through the wall, dictating our lives, profiting from everything that has, and will/could happen. I'm just not comfortable with the 'helpful' nature of so many corporations.
Let's remember that wonderful scifi episode of old. 'To serve man' has two meanings...
What you are talking about here are more extreme examples and I think some people may miss out on using desirable, beneficial products and services because they fear the worst regarding potential privacy violation issues. If people want to go to that degree that's fine but they might as well stop using technology from any company including Apple.
Going back to the subject company, Life360 has been in business since 2008 and currently has approximately 33 million users. Have there been any incidents where the company's data sharing has been discovered to have negatively impacted or been harmful to one of its users? It seems the company's biggest controversy has been about how kids feel about being tracked, parent/child relationship and trust issues, etc. but that's an entirely different matter.
Your last paragraph was more my point in the beginning. I mean, aside from the 'no laws' angle for use of what they 'find', the damage it can do to a child's psyche. But enough... People will give up their families cow for a good marketing proposal. It's your cow. I just feel so sorry for the children, and our future.
I have never seen a poster more paranoid and hyperbolic. Your kids having $100,000 in student loans is far more catastrophic than parents tracking them a couple times per month while they are teenagers.
That was always my experience with Tile; half the time it wouldn’t alert even if it was in the next room. I don’t know if the new ones have a replaceable battery, but I hated having to buy a new one when the battery died instead of popping in a new 2032 after about a year.