App Profile: AARP SafeTrip™

bchali

Rating: 5/5

This application (while privately tracking vehicle movement using the phones data) allows each individual to review their driving performance (and judgement) on any trip monitored. Just a quick ‘check-up’ tool on how you are doing in safety critical areas, identifying what might need some ‘extra’ attention. A great way to ‘stay safe out there’. :{)

Cavatti01

Rating: 2/5

I just want to respond to a response about a review and the answer the developer gave. It was concerning privacy issues about having to have the location setting on your phone set in always on instead of while using. Here is the response: "In order to properly track your vehicle's speed and movement, AARP SafeTrip needs access to sensors in your phone that allow it to see your phone's location. We reason we ask for access to location "all the time" is so the app user doesn't have to remember to open the app and grant AARP SafeTrip location access before every trip." My response to that is, if you can build an app with this technology, cave you simply have a notification sent to the user when they are starting to use the app to turn location to always on? Seems kind of like a lame excuse to me. As for the response below, that app is continuously running in your phone detecting everywhere you go whether you are walking are driving with someone else. This is a MAJOR privacy issue. It sounds like you the developer needs to get on top of this and quit making excuses for it.

Wstd1mt

Rating: 1/5

I was not able to get past the privacy settings for this app. The developer collects quite a bit of personal information along with usage data to sell to other parties. The captcha algorithm failed several times when I tried to establish my privacy settings relating to that data. Not being able to even get past that I am deleting the app. Seems to be very poorly written and does not favor user preferences which attempt to reign in distributing personal data. If you don’t mind having all your personal data commoditized, then this could be an okay app. I, however, was never able to even experience the app core function.