US court rules continued use can imply consent in Tile case

An animated advertisement for the self-described "Family Safety App" Life360 recently depicted a mother singing about dangers and presented location tracking as a solution. Life360 acquired Bluetooth tracker company Tile in 2021, and a 2023 class-action lawsuit alleges Tile was negligent in how it implemented anti-stalking safeguards; that case is still ongoing.

In a recent appeal from Tile and Life360, a US court ruled that use of a device or service can imply consent to its terms. One plaintiff said she only found the notice email in her spam folder in January 2024, and another said she never saw the email, downloading and using the Tile app to "use the Scan and Secure feature to locate her alleged stalker’s Tile Tracker." The court found the plaintiffs "unambiguously manifested assent to the Oct.

2023 Terms through their continued use of the Tile App." Many people use Bluetooth trackers for benign purposes such as finding misplaced keys or lost luggage, but they are not infallible.

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