Apple and Google team up to address unwanted tracking through AirTags

02 May 2023
Small devices such as AirTags can easily be used to stealthily track someone without their knowledge.

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  • Quericus
  • IvS
  • 05 May 2023

Qurikyposter nailed it. But it's not only people who want to track their baggages, cars, purses or themselves. Law enforcement (police) are *very* aware of this tech, and want it to track potential suspects without any safeguards (warrants). The potential for abuse is very real. They can already track you on your smartphone; why would you want to be tracked with an AirPod or Tile to make it any easier?

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    • Quirkyposter
    • D8s
    • 05 May 2023

    It has taken a while for them to acknowledge the problem and now to finally start looking at resolving it. My opinion is that it has taken this long because they had to get as much legal clarification as possible as to how much they are to blame for people being stalked, murdered, harassed etc so that they can put out something to the world that won't get them in trouble.

    Now, I disagree that this product went to market without adequate safeguards in place. It is not a weapon nor anything that would be expected to cause harm in the mind of any normal reasonable person. However some people are not normal, are unreasonable and will exploit anything they can to control people.

    So clearly, it was not the Board of Directors that made this product and designed it because they would have put safeguards in knowing how it could be exploited and used. Normal people designed this product, the kind of people that would never think of using it that way.

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      • Anonymous
      • 3yL
      • 03 May 2023

      Anonymous, 03 May 2023What did they broke?? As far as I know, it's the natur... more>Making a tracking device.
      >Didn't expect people to use for stalking.

      Sure.

        Using your tags to track people has got to be the lamiest thing you could do. Defo used by controlling partners in a relationship

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          • AngryLithuanian
          • mE0
          • 03 May 2023

          Measures like these should be implemented from the start of a new product launch not after shiit went sideways but of course profit above all else...

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            • 803
            • 03 May 2023

            Lol Apple's effort will be half-hearted at best

              "Internet Engineering Task Force"

              now that's a dope name!

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                • Anonymous
                • I2Y
                • 03 May 2023

                Anonymous, 03 May 2023What did they broke?? As far as I know, it's the natur... moreTrue
                No one is asking people to use it for sketchy practices, yet here we are

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                  • prasila
                  • 0Ut
                  • 03 May 2023

                  Mills, 03 May 2023Who's we? I didn't buy an AirTagYou don't even have to buy to be able to be tracked by someone! newb

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                    • Anonymous
                    • uCh
                    • 03 May 2023

                    Fix your damned find my device first Google, a restart is all it takes to disable your find my device.

                      Anonymous, 03 May 2023We will fix what we broke. Do they really expect applauses?Who's we? I didn't buy an AirTag

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                        • Mahathir Mamak
                        • uCp
                        • 03 May 2023

                        so users are not allowed to track others, but the tech companies tracks us 24/7 on our devices instead? hmm, fair deal, right?

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                          • Anonymous
                          • YUU
                          • 03 May 2023

                          Anonymous, 03 May 2023We will fix what we broke. Do they really expect applauses?What did they broke?? As far as I know, it's the nature of human that broke things. Apple just made AirTag, it's the human who're misused it for whatever purpose or reason got on their minds. At least Apple is trying to help to solve the situation. Unlike certain people or companies or whatever you named it 🙄

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                            • Anonymous
                            • ib3
                            • 03 May 2023

                            Anonymous, 03 May 2023We will fix what we broke. Do they really expect applauses?I mean, what did they expect people will use this technology when they released it? Track animals?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 3yL
                              • 03 May 2023

                              We will fix what we broke.

                              Do they really expect applauses?

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                                • CBRNMed
                                • 6rW
                                • 03 May 2023

                                Yeah, instead of teaming up and focusing on things really important for tech industry like raw devices security, no they're working on things that not so much people use, almost everyone nowadays have smartphones, but not everyone have smart location enabled devices, honestly they could use deep learning and IA for security and join forces to increase devices security across all mobile platforms, but no, smart tags is the only important things they have to focus on right now.

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