Ok there - I’m on board with the whole ‘this is scummy’ thing, but you’re really really stretching here.
You know what someone can do to ‘discover locations frequented by children’? About a million things. One of which involve paying a bunch of $$ to Life360 and trying to filter the data by age.
Like walk around the neighborhood. Look on Facebook/nextdoor (old people complain about congregating kids all the time), follow a kid after school, or just GO TO A SCHOOL (oh my God - the government forces kids into a single location every day of the week, now they’ll be victims!).
> One of which involve paying a bunch of $$ 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.
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!).