I’m the CEO of Life360 which owns Tile. We are exploring a program that would disable anti-stalking features if we could verify someone’s identity to then enable our devices to be used to protect against theft, which is not possible with AirTags (a thief can just scan for your tags).
Our belief is that by adding more friction and increasing the risk of punishment we can make these devices far more powerful for the 99.999% of users who are responsible. We don’t want outliers to ruin it for everyone.
If a stalker wants to track someone there are inexpensive stealth GPS devices with their own cell connections that allow real-time location - we make them too - but for whatever reason there hasn’t been any negative attention on this side of the location device category.
Are there any thoughts or implementation suggestions on this?
Our belief is that by adding more friction and increasing the risk of punishment we can make these devices far more powerful for the 99.999% of users who are responsible. We don’t want outliers to ruin it for everyone.
If a stalker wants to track someone there are inexpensive stealth GPS devices with their own cell connections that allow real-time location - we make them too - but for whatever reason there hasn’t been any negative attention on this side of the location device category.
Are there any thoughts or implementation suggestions on this?