OC by @relic4322@lemmy.ml
This is a bit dated, but the case it not yet resolved. If you search it its still pending and in mediation. Life360 is looking to limit who it sells the info to in order to resolve the case. There is no debate that they were selling the info.
Buying corpo shit us just rental roulette.
When they bought tile i used my California privacy rights claim to delete data and threw away all my tiles
FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.
Sorry if I've just become that jaded, but did anybody expect that these apps don't sell data?
I’ve been shopping for some sort of cross platform (namely iOS / Android) service like this or Apple’s Find My Friends that I’d could have some assurance that this kind of content would be kept safe and private. The search continues …
I wonder if there is an open source alternative to keep track of family and friends.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Traccar. It's open source and simple to setup with docker. The skills required for this are much more than just installing an invasive app though...
Unfortunate, I had to use this app when my highschool offered a Europe trip during the summer. The shit barely worked anyway because most of us had shoddy service or didn't have a plan where we could have our data on 24/7, so it wouldn't be able to update our location often. It'd make it look like a kid was 3 miles away from the hotels we stayed at, and one time two girls almost got in trouble during curfew cause the app wasn't updated.
I really wish there were OSS apps out there that let people track their friends/loved ones, because I totally get it, sometimes you can't call/text at that moment. Hell, if they get kidnapped you might have a chance of finding them if they still have their phone on them.
As a life360 user, I really don't know how any reasonable person in the last 10 years could sign up and not know they're selling location data. It's a free service primarily designed to track your location. I didn't read the terms, I just assumed it to be true.
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