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Life360 and the new Tile lineup deliver as promised. Should you use them?

Exactly as advertised.

If you take the time to enter friendly names for the locations you frequent, they're used in the notification so you'll see a message like "Terry is at Exxon" instead of knowing someone drove for 11 minutes and is at a spot on a map that might not mean much to you. Slightly more concerning, but in the same vein, both Apple and Google's apps to find unknown trackers do not detect a Tile device in your vicinity. I have issues with sharing personal data, and my family is small; no teenagers are driving my car to keep track of, and my mom has a sound mind.

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