I get why one would want to LoJack their kids, but maybe don’t give a major corporation ready access to that kind of information
I get the idea of wanting that lifeline in case of an emergency, but I agree, constant tracking is toxic. I’d never give a corporation my kids’ information just for some small convenience like that. Basically selling their future for almost nothing. By the time they grow up, potential employers and governments will know every place they ever visited as a kid, even places that might have been technically trespassing or politically divisive in the future. Kids need to learn and explore and be guided on what’s right and wrong, not be punished for minor stuff they did as children their entire lives.
I like the idea of a kid tracker, but I also don’t think it’s super necessary. Especially when this happens. To me, it implies that T-Mobile isn’t using end to end encryption between the tracker and parents phone. Maybe from tracker to T-Mobile to parents.
Side note: Any decent kid tracker thingies that respect privacy?
About a decade ago I worked for T-Mobile on a very similar product. I would be surprised if they used any security considering during my time there, they would commonly ship hackathon projects as-is.
Fmdlocator. It can auto reply a text with location to whitelisted contacts.