So a predator with access to this data, even if anonymized, could use it to discover locations frequented by children.
A company that ostentatiously presents its mission as making children safer actually makes money by making children less safe
A company that ostentatiously presents its mission as making children safer actually makes money by making children less safe
You know what someone can do to ‘discover locations frequented by children’? About a million things. One of which involve paying a bunch of $$ to Life360 and trying to filter the data by age.
Like walk around the neighborhood. Look on Facebook/nextdoor (old people complain about congregating kids all the time), follow a kid after school, or just GO TO A SCHOOL (oh my God - the government forces kids into a single location every day of the week, now they’ll be victims!).
I certainly hope that's the case
> One of which involve paying a bunch of $$ to Life360 and trying to filter the data by age.
The fact that the data is being made available to larger audience than it needs to fulfil it's stated purpose is a violation of trust. The expectation of the parents is that the data is exposed to minimum of people - employees of Life360. Instead, the data is shared with the employees of potentially hundreds of companies. None of whom need pay anything to Life360.
> About a million things. ... Like walk around the neighborhood ...
In less time than it takes to search one neighborhood by foot, someone can use big data to search a million neighborhoods. And thereafter rerun that search day after day, week after week, year after year. With no effort.
There's a reason so many companies are tracking everything, and so many companies are paying for that tracking data: it's powerful.