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The Brian Lehrer Show

Who Are You Tracking?

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Politics, Arts, Npr, News, Wnyc, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, Lerer, New, Public, Radio, Media, York

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"Find My," Airtags and a multitude of other apps/devices allow us to check in on our friends and family's locations at any time. Listeners share who they're tracking, who's tracking them, and why.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lera on WNYC and now I'll wrap up today's show for our last 15 minutes or so with a little experiment and the question

0:16.9

Who do you track on your phone and why and who tracks you?

0:22.1

212 433 WNYC.

0:25.0

Who do you track on your phone and who tracks you?

0:29.0

212 433 962.

0:33.0

And here's the experiment.

0:34.1

Those of you have an iPhone ready, open up your find my app and take a look at the people

0:40.1

tab.

0:41.1

Do you have access to anyone's location?

0:43.0

You may not even know that you do.

0:44.8

Can you see where your child, partner,

0:47.6

or any of your friends currently are?

0:50.2

Well, maybe there's someone unexpected tracking you.

0:53.7

212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692.

1:01.3

And who do you track on your phone if you already know that you do this and why and who do allow to track you?

1:07.0

212 433 9692. And why do I ask? well for many location tracking isn't the privacy nightmare it

1:16.2

used to be gone or the days when you have to call people to find out where they

1:19.6

were at any given time and trust that they were where they said they were.

1:24.4

Apps like Google's family link, some of you use that and Apple's Find My can show you on a map

1:31.6

where your loved ones are without any sort of contact.

1:34.4

And these location tracking apps are incredibly popular.

1:38.4

For those of you who don't know, the Life 360 app has 33 million active users in the United States alone showing just how

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