• ssroxnak@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    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?

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      1 day ago

      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.

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      23 hours ago

      Side note: Any decent kid tracker thingies that respect privacy?

      Apple Watch works well as a kid tracker if they’re old enough to wear it safely, and I think the privacy aspects are very good. It uses the FindMy network, and Apple can’t see the location. There’s a bunch of specifics here. Apple Watch used to require an iPhone, but Apple made it so you can add a kid’s watch to the family so it uses a parent’s iPhone instead.