I wonder what it will be like on a long flight with this feature: there is an army of unknown Bluetooth items moving with you.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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My sister has encountered that issue, when a kid on her school trip had an AirTag in his bag. Everyone’s phones rang
Hopefully there’s a special case built in where it doesn’t do that if the original owner is still nearby?
I use AirTags when I’m traveling and would feel bad if mine set off 100 phones all at once.
For airtags that was, at least until recently, the case. You could only detect "lost airtags".
Which makes sense, since only then they are relevant for stalking etc.
Phones are trackers in and of themselves. Just look back to the NSA controversy...
Regular people don’t have access to that data. They do have access to a $30 tracker, and people need to know if they’re being stalked.
Aren't most of the data the NSA collects from third parties like Google and Apple who already sell that data? can't anybody theoretically buy that data if its being sold? much like the mobile US carrier's were doing
My gut tells me they only sell in bulk, you can't just request your ex girlfriends dataset
I have always asked me when this would happen. So if I have a tracker on my bike the thief will now be notified of the situation.
Basically making a whole lot of potential use cases obsolete., or am I missing something?
I think the gain in privacy is definitely worth it. Just trying to understand if I am missing something
I guess it helps against being stalked.
I have always asked me when this would happen.
Well, what did you say?
This should be a TheOnion article 🤣
I... partially agree? There's a bit of a difference between the targeted tracking a private individual does with an airtag, vs the generalized, but equally creepy tracking google/apple/others do through widespread tech. One definitely poses a greater short term risk than the other
I mean on Android you can just use Aurora or NeoStore which make it extremely easy to identify all sorts of trackers, but then you realize most of Google's stuff falls into that...
This is about trackers as in devices which can geolocate, such as Apple's airtags, not privacy-invading data collection in apps. Google obviously wouldn't care to address the latter.
So this essentially makes all the tag crap worthless.....
I prefer the term "admirer".