10 December 2021

Consumer Warning: Family safety app Life360 sells your location data


Data sold by Life360, an app that helps people share their location with family members, is being sold by data dealers to whoever is willing to pay for it, The Markup has found. At the center of the report are two former employees of Life360 and two people who in the past have worked for two of its customers - Cuebiq and X-Mode.

The app has a user base of 33 million customers and is typically used by parents to keep an eye on their kids. Life360's privacy policy clearly states that it sells data that it collects from app users in a de-identified form. The employees questioned by The Markup have revealed that the company doesn't take the steps needed to ensure the information is not traced back to people. Some of the customers are sold raw location data and the company says it trusts its customers to obfuscate that information.

Apparently, Life360 is the go-to source for location data for most entities, a claim that founder and CEO Chris Hulls neither confirms nor denies. He says that data is an important part of the company and allows them to keep core services free, including features that have "improved driver safety and saved numerous lives." Last year, location data sales made up 20 percent of the revenue.

The data is seemingly being used by hedge funds or firms that do targeted advertising and by government organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Defense. 

X-Mode has been found in the past to sell location data from Muslim prayers apps to U.S. government contractors. Cuebiq sold location data to news organizations like The New York Times and NBC News during the beginning of the pandemic as they were eager to learn about the new movement patterns of the public during the early lockdown period.

Life360, which began selling data in 2016, instituted a policy barring the sale of data for law enforcement purposes in 2020 and this also applies to customers who get data from it. Whether they are complying with this is not known.

Although Life360 made a loss of $16.3 million in 2020, it is expanding its business to include products for data breach alerts, credit monitoring, and identity-theft protection.

In 2019, it bought family screen-time monitoring app ZenScreen and in April, it acquired Jiobit which makes wearable location devices for kids, pets, and seniors. Most recently, it revealed plans to buy Tile, a company that makes Bluetooth trackers to help consumers find easily lost items like wallets and keys. Hulls says data from Tile devices won't be sold.

Life360 does give an option to its app users to disable the sale of location data. 

09 December 2021

Freight company's delivery fraud? AirTag exposes DHL fraud!

MANY parcel delivery corporations deceive their customers, either by accident or deliberately.

Can you monitor their progress independently of their so called 'tracking' system?

Can you 'keep the bastards honest'?

Let's see how one 'customer' documented the journey of his parcels with DHL.



07 December 2021

Workplace 'medical procedure' mandate not lawful


Briefly,

While this article may pertain to a corporation called BHP, the reality is that no employer can lawfully force an employee to take a medical procedure or more specifically an injection of some sort where if a person did not, the consequences would be employment termination.

Governments and corporations are 'forcing' persons (or rather enticing or withdrawing privileges) to succumb to a medical procedure with zero knowledge of long-term or inter-generational effects, as mentioned in hansards.

MANY people have been deceived or conned into a medical procedure against their will.

In this case the suggestion would be for a class action against the government or corporations involved.

06 December 2021

Andrews' 50 man 'dirt' team


To many people Daniel Michael Andrews seems unstoppable in his communist régime style of governing over the people of Victoria.

He also seems untouchable by the law, where putting him in 'person' in front of a judge seems out of reach by the mere serf.

While he is accountable to, he is also supported by the 'faceless men' in his actions.

He also has one other ace up his sleeve that the mainstream media is deliberately not reporting on.

He has a 'dirt' squad, a team of approximately 50 goons that dig up anything on any person or persons that are against (or may be against) Andrews so that he can use it against them at a later point in time.

That's right, Victorian taxpayers are paying for a hit squad that works for Andrews to keep him in office and untouchable or accountable for any actions he takes.

Is this an acceptable practice to you or more importantly at law?

It's pretty useless to ask an FOI (Freedom Of Information) from your oppressor to name them.

It's pretty useless to accuse him in order to bring the matter before a magistrate or judge, as he will not even show up.

This is just an FYI (For Your Information) post.