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Regardless if everyone is using the app 100% consensually, it has some horrible privacy policies. They reserve the right to sell your location data to insurance companies. They can inform your car and health insurance that think you’re not driving safe or going to dangerous areas.

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yeahhhh, okay that's pretty bad. regardless of apple's privacy policies i'm uncomfortable with giving access to my location to any company, in case interests change. i will definitely consider self-hosting something like owntracks [0] so i'm in control of my data. OP should consider doing the same! (not a shill)

[0]: https://owntracks.org

-With regards to selling my location info to third parties, I have been fighting an increasingly irresistible urge to set up an old smartphone and an SDR in my basement to see whether they derive the location info from GPS exclusively or if they use cellular info, too.

It would be fun to spoof the GPS data to draw all sorts of obscene art for their viewing (dis)pleasure.

It is frustrating when people say this. We are super transparent and give way more control than other apps. And no, we don't sell your data to insurance companies (we do do sell data for things like real time speed monitoring for traffic companies and people movement like the COVID dashboards many people have seen).

See blog post here https://www.life360.com/blog/understanding-how-life360-uses-...

Your privacy policy also says you share geolocation data with a 3rd party company that may “provide and service insurance products, including using personal data to perform profiling activities”

See comment below for more details, but we have driving services powered by Allstate (Arity a subsidiary to be specific). This is not a buyer/seller relationship and they are heavily restricted with what they can do. There is no risk of (or ability for) them to use this to change your rates or link this to your current insurance policy.

You might not like that the clock shows you to be in "Mortal Peril" when you travel over 75mph. :)

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