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Larry's avatar

Hey Rick! The privacy issues with Helium’s free plan are too substantial for me to overlook. As I was signing up, I saw that they require you to set their app to *always track location*. This crosses a line for me and I am not comfortable with it.

There are those who are waving this off, saying “carriers already have your location through cell tower information so this is no big deal”. My answer is, yes that’s true, but there are at least some nominal protections on that data. Plus it’s course data, not exact location. If I agree to heliums terms, they are free to use my location data however they want.

Sorry I won’t do that, even for free.

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Jesrock's avatar

Hi Rick, I also saw the Helium Zero plan a few days ago and plan to use it on a second phone. I saw the waitlist and did a quick search for referral codes. HELIUMCEO worked for me and their SIM is on the way to me. I hope this free service sticks around.

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