The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users

Ben Werdmuller

06 Dec 2021

"Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. The Markup has learned, however, that the app is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it." This should be illegal.

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