re: Let's talk about Life360

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Read the life360 policy I posted on pg4 and see they are selling even more of your data, for example "driving analytics services". At least some people still get upset about such stuff.
GM Just Killed Its Program That Sold Your Data After Uproar

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I think its funny you think you are so special that anyone really cares about your specific data. They likely don't. Its when you get millions and millions of data points that it starts to add up.

If you don't have a single app on your phone that has some sort of cookies or tracking, good for you. But you are also living about 10 years behind technology that likely could make your life a hell of a lot easier.

Google maps is free and I've used the shite out of it. If they get some data back from me for free, I'll call that a win for me.

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"Dad why you always driving out to rest areas and truck stops in the middle of the night."

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what's weird is that people pay for a service that is free already in iOS.

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360 is much much better than the iOS. Its much faster, better tracking, etc.

I haven't been on 360 in probably 2 weeks. But I feel better knowing I have that added benefit of knowing where my teenage daughter and wife are. It has nothing to do with controlling their location, but about using technology to help them stay safe. If that makes me a bad person, so be it.

My wife and daughter use it probably weekly to find a lost device or locate each other in a crowded place like a junior high football game.

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Our grandparents & great-grandparents were not sitting around monitoring everywhere & everything their children were going & doing.

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Only because they couldn't. There is a reason letter writing fell out of favor once telephones were invented.

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But I feel better knowing I have that added benefit of knowing where my teenage daughter and wife are. It has nothing to do with controlling their location, but about using technology to help them stay safe.

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Is it really helping them “stay safe" or is it just scratching that control itch?

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It has nothing to do with controlling their location, but about using technology to help them stay safe.

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You’re going to have to explain this to me. How is you knowing their every move helping them “stay” safe?

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if you go 80 in a 40 again you aren’t leaving the house. If you don’t put your device down you lose your car. This is pretty easy

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He’s going to ground his wife?

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I have that added benefit of knowing where my teenage daughter and wife are. It has nothing to do with controlling their location, but about using technology to help them stay safe.

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it really helping them “stay safe" or is it just scratching that control itch?

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for me it allows more freedom for my kid. He runs around for a few days. He tells us what goes on. I verify it occasionally. He is truthful. Life goes on. He is untruthful I let him know he needs to be truthful. He rides w someone driving like a bat outta hell, tell him he needs to do better.

I don’t know what people think Life360 does.

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I think its funny you think you are so special that anyone really cares about your specific data.

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Some of you are so proud of your ignorance.

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Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident.

So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his car insurance jumped by 21 percent. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high. One insurance agent told him his LexisNexis report was a factor.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

I have a map program on my phone that isn't run by the biggest ad firm in the world. It isn't quite as good as Gmaps but it works fine enough.

While I agree with you, this shows your/our age. Kids these days and probably the last decade or so expect NO privacy. Most of the social media sites allow them to track each other. But it's also the "what if" argument you can see in some of the comments. "What if their car slides off the road?" or "What if they are in trouble?" Also same reason some parents have their kids in $80k cars in high school. "What if they are in a wreck and I don't have them in the safest thing possible?" Bottom line it is more about the parents and no one bothers to ask what kind of kids are we raising. More and more these kids aren't "launching" and these same parents can't figure out why.