T-Mobile App Glitch Reveals Children's Location

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App glitch shares real-time location and photos of young children

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T-Mobile's SyncUP app is paired with a GPS device, called SyncUP , which fits inside a child's backpack and allows parents to keep an eye on their kids through the T-Life app.

Some parents who logged into the app on Tuesday found they could no longer see where their kids were.

To make matters even more disturbing, parents realized they could see the exact, real-time locations of other random children across the country.

The data included the kids' names, their address-level locations and the last time the locations were updated.

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