Life360 buying Tile

[Cmaier]

A whole lot of creepiness between these 2.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/22/22797559/tile-bluetooth-tracker-location-gps-acquisition-life360

 

[tobefirst]

I think Tile probably needed to be acquired, but I'm not sure this is the right company.

 

[Cmaier]

I think Tile probably needed to be acquired, but I'm not sure this is the right company.

As steve jobs said about Dropbox - it’s a feature, not a product.

 

[Cmaier]

The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users – The Markup

The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements

themarkup.org