This is a bit dated, but the case it not yet resolved. If you search it its still pending and in mediation. Life360 is looking to limit who it sells the info to in order to resolve the case. There is no debate that they were selling the info.
FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.
I’ve been shopping for some sort of cross platform (namely iOS / Android) service like this or Apple’s Find My Friends that I’d could have some assurance that this kind of content would be kept safe and private. The search continues …
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Traccar. It’s open source and simple to setup with docker. The skills required for this are much more than just installing an invasive app though…
Will check it out, thanks!
Np. I’ve been trying to set it up for 2 weeks now. The hard part is getting pangolin to connect to my local server. I suspect ai’s attempt to help has just screwed me over…
I just got implemented it a yesterday. Let me check out pangolin. Im just running the traccar server instance in docker on an old laptop and connecting through tailscale at the moment. need to look into a FOSS vpn probably. WIP XD
Sounds cool, gotta check this.
I wonder if there is an open source alternative to keep track of family and friends.
A phone call or sms asking “hey where are you?” isn’t enough?
It’s just more convenient and less stressful to know that your loved ones are in safe areas and also in case something happens and they cannot get in contact you can tell where they are or at least where they’ve been.
As a life360 user, I really don’t know how any reasonable person in the last 10 years could sign up and not know they’re selling location data. It’s a free service primarily designed to track your location. I didn’t read the terms, I just assumed it to be true.
