Privacy respecting location sharing?(find my friends) (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by calmluck9349@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My family currently uses life360(iOS and android). But I hate their privacy policy. I'm looking for an alternative. The thing that's difficult is I can't find one that's opt in to each other. Like my parents are split so they dont want to share with each other but the rest of us do. Prefer selfhosted but anything is better that where we are at. Thanks!!

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[-] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 8 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud and Phonetrack maybe? https://github.com/julien-nc/phonetrack

[-] calmluck9349@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish this had the feature set I was looking for. Either like life360 where I have circles and we have group location shares. Or like findmyfriends where its per person based. The per person one seems like it would be possible with a little bit of MQTT or something.

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I use this and you can preemptively create some groups you can share your location to, then turn those on. If this works for you.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I saw what I think was a plugin for osmand that would share your location in real time via telegram. Took a look, it looked okay, but people I know don't use telegram (or osmand - not necessary but helpful) so forgot it. Sorry, I can't find it now within osmand or fdroid!

There's a few location sharing apps in fdroid, maybe one of them could be an option? Dunno about iOS support, but the way the telegram/osm one worked is the receiver could have it link through to osmand or just click the link in telegram to see the map location online.

Osmand does have a generic facility for location uploads: within the track recording plugin. You can self-host a custom solution that takes a URL input to log a location point. Sorry, that's probably more work than you want! I certainly gave up on it!

[-] mathse@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Traccar, open source self hosted solution: https://www.traccar.org

[-] take6056@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Alternatively: Hauk

(No idea how they compare)

[-] carloshr@feddit.cl 1 points 1 year ago

It seems that Hauk project is abandoned. Las commit was 2 years ago.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It can be done with Google Maps but thats google. It does work well however. There is also traccar that can be self hosted but I don't know if there is an iOS client

[-] calmluck9349@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

This is probably worse than life360.. Lol

[-] n0cturnali@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Following

[-] nugohs@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

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[-] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This would be the dream!

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

i haven't used it yet as I've found this app by accident just now: locus (Share your location end-to-end encrypted on decentralized servers using Nostr) - https://f-droid.org/app/app.myzel394.locus

i remembered your post and thought it may help

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