The latest Tile trackers include a button that can alert your friends that ‘something is wrong,' though emergency services cost extra.
Bluetooth trackers. At the same time, those tags have run up against accusations they facilitate stalking, even more than Apple’s ultra-popular tracker. Device maker Life360’sThe new trackers have a multi-function button that can alert the users’ friends and the SOS function in the Tile app if “something is wrong.” Press the button three times, and it will send a notification describing your emergency to contacts designated in the Life360 app.
hiding the trackers from its own scans. To enable the invisible trackers, users needed to offer up biometric data and consent to a potential $1 million lawsuit if they were convicted of stalking. At the time, Life360 claimed the loophole in its anti-stalking initiative was to help users recover stolen items.
“Unlike competitors like Airtags and upcoming products compatible with the Google Find My Device Network, Tile doesn’t alert thieves if they steal an item with one of our trackers,” Tile claims in its press release about its Anti-Theft mode.against the company. The pair of alleged stalking victims claimed the tracker maker “marketed its product both explicitly and implicitly for the purpose of tracking people—particularly women.
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