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by user00005 6 days ago
I'm arguing the tradeoff of possible convenience isn't worth it.

Tile is owned by Life360. The original article talks about Life360 selling your data to advertisers. Let's look at what the Tile app wants to collect from you: photos and videos, location, app activity, messages, personal info. They say 'no data is shared with third parties'. Does that include the parent company Life360 that does sell data with third parties?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.thetile...

1 comments

Then use a better, more private tracker.