Hey all,

I’m looking for something that can track location of my preschooler who starts new school soon. He’s too young to get a smartphone, so I have to rule out app based solutions I guess.

My initial research found virtually nothing. One candidate is GeoZilla, which sells nice devices and their pivacy policy looks okayish regarding location data, but it still relies on their servers of course. Another option would be an iWatch, which again puts trust into 3rd party, and the device is quite expensive for a small kid.

Any privacy-oriented trackers out there that I’m missing. Maybe there are some smartphone alternatives that can have cell connectivity and GPS and apps installed, but with much simpler interface?

Update: Thanks everyone! I got GeoZilla tag for now. The app doesn’t require personal information, which is good. However, it’s annoyingly reminds to enable location for itself to track “me”, which I don’t need at all. Garmin came as a strong second, mainly due to my child age. Garmin devices are not for very young kids, I believe. And it costs more than GeoZilla. I still have some time to think if I really want this, though. It’s not too late to return GeoZilla tag

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
    10·
    11 months ago

    AirTags track without the need of a SIM card, they use other peoples iPhones to update the GPS of the beacon. Not sure how it aligns with your privacy respecting angle though.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 months ago

        I recently talked to a mother who track her kids with airTags, it was shocking for me at first but the kids are aware and it seems to work

        don’t forget to inform teachers about this as adults accompanying kids receive warning notifications for being tracked and some (when uninformed) take it as a sign of distrust