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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got some of those Chipolo trackers shown in the photo. So far I'm pretty disappointed. Based on the locations being reported, I'm pretty sure my phone is the only one in my city working on the Find my Device system, and even that is intermittent. For example, I've left my bike, which has a Chipolo tracker hidden on it, in public places such as a busy train station. After two days on the station platform - with goodness knows how many Android phones passing by - the bike is still showing as being at home in my garage. Like, it didn't even get logged on my own phone as I cycled to the station and left the bike and tracker there. The system really isn't up to speed yet

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I personally disabled the feature on my phone when it popped up as available. I don't have much of an interest in contributing to a weird surveillance network.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Despite I admit I might find this feature useful, I wonder what "young" iPhoned generation thinks about it: be part of the surveillance network and ignore any worst case distopic future you can be trapped in, or be at least critical about it and have some kind of doubts and questions? To me it looks like most of them just accept anything and laugh about any critical thought they're offered cause they are in a iTrust world.

Google maps history is not that different and I liked it as long as it's supposed to be really "my private data" but we know it's not, and own cloud data is still something too nerd for the mass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure actual surveillance organizations don't need a known Android service to locate you and track what you're doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Right. So why does my phone also need to be a part of surveiling others?