No, but Tile is still a separate company until at least Q1 2022. This article is about the current Life360 company which offers a free app and a free basic service option.
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Tile Buyer Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Millions of Users [Updated]
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No, but Tile is still a separate company until at least Q1 2022. This article is about the current Life360 company which offers a free app and a free basic service option.
Maybe, maybe not. Just because one company is acquired by another does not automatically mean that those newly acquired customers/users are affected or handled in the same way as the acquiring company’s other existing customers. At least initially, Life360 may stick with whatever Tile was doing regarding use of customer data. Time will tell.
Ew, what? There’s no reason to buy a Tile tracker anymore if this company is simply going to just sell your location data afterward. I don’t see the point of giving them money. Makes AirTags that much more appealing. Just my 2¢ though.
Isn’t it already too late? They probably are under no obligation to delete any of your data when you get rid of your hardware. That data will be valuable for many years, at least until you move or change jobs that makes the old data unreliable.
I used to be really into a Swedish app called Moves. It tracked your locations and left you each day with a really cool linear chart of where you went, how far you walked/ran/etc. Then, inevitably, Facebook bought it. This feels like the same thing.
First Fitbit, now Tile. Seems like the safest path is to still go all-in on the apple ecosystem.
It wouldn't be too late. His data would be protected under whatever privacy agreement he had with Tile. If Life360 decides to make changes, they would need to get current/existing Tile customer to agree to those changes.
I wish Apple would bring Find My to Windows and Android. I know it’s completely anti-Apple to do that, but this is the **** you have to put up with if you want to have similar features for sharing locations with family members who don’t have iPhones.
Well actually you did agree to that when you checked the box for agreeing to their terms & conditions and privacy policy. It’s been in their privacy policy all along.
That’s his point, he’s suggesting one should ask for their data to be deleted before life360 acquires it.
In the future, a lot of things like this will be legislated out of existence and made illegal. There is no other logical end game.
For $10 more, you can get a 4th AirTag ?
Even if the acquisition doesn’t go through, how do you know Tile hasn’t been doing the same thing? Because as far as I know, Apple is the only large company that hasn’t monetized user location data.
Sad you think apple is so perfect… ?Who's shocked?
Not me...
Add them to the list of scumbag companies...
You forget that iTunes was required sell iPods and actual music. And for a period of time, it was the only way to manage backups for iOS devices.
Well, they were acquired by Google a while back.
There’s this trend of smaller companies being bought over by larger tech giants whom I would rather them not having too much of my user data.
Even Spotify is going into ads as a secondary source of revenue. I don’t have anything against advertising (even Apple is doing it with the App Store), but it does make me wonder just how much control users have over their own data on these platforms, and what their options are if they want to opt out.
I didn’t forget that, but an iPod wasn’t a requirement to use iTunes. Most of my friends in highschool used iTunes but didn’t own an iPod. It was free, and not one of them was the product.
Wait... does Life360 have a time machine to go back 30 years?
don't know where you peeps live but in the US, we have lots of locally owned arcades serving up the best of the 80s
Ah ok. I guess I did know that. I thought maybe they were caught selling user data or something.
You and the serial killer in town are different, but you’re both made of flesh and walk on two legs.
Do I? Maybe I’m in a wheelchair. Maybe I was born without legs. This is why blind generalizations are dumb.
Which is why they're rushing to make as much money as they can now. The state of the ad tech industry right now is like tobacco in the 1950s.