Apple Introduces AirTag

Post by Dylan16807 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 6:44 AM UTC

shuckles wrote: post #88

booleandilemma wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if a thief steals my jacket with an AirTag inside, some time later it’ll start beeping? At which point he’ll discard the AirTag and I won’t be able to track down my jacket. Kinda lame.

You assume that in a counter-factual world, professional thieves can’t learn to check the pockets of stolen jackets? They are already known to use Bluetooth network scanners to identify, eg, cars with electronics stored inside.

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 6:47 AM UTC

heavyset_go wrote: post #468

Lammy wrote: post #326

Can somebody please help me parse the last sentence in the "Privacy" paragraph here? I'm honestly confused by the "or location of any device that helped find it". All I want to know is if a LEA could subpoena Apple for the location of any/all of my AirTags, and I can't tell if this is talking about the tags themselves or about the device that initiates a Find action for a Tag: "AirTag is designed from the ground up t…

> All I want to know is if a LEA could subpoena Apple for the location of any/all of my AirTags Like anything that's centralized in the cloud, not only can law enforcement subpoena the provider for your data, they can subpoena your data without you ever being notified of the fact.

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 6:48 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #326

Can somebody please help me parse the last sentence in the "Privacy" paragraph here? I'm honestly confused by the "or location of any device that helped find it". All I want to know is if a LEA could subpoena Apple for the location of any/all of my AirTags, and I can't tell if this is talking about the tags themselves or about the device that initiates a Find action for a Tag: "AirTag is designed from the ground up t…

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 6:54 AM UTC

mjgs wrote: post #520

Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a way for this system to run scripts when certain events happen? Maybe send webhooks?

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 6:54 AM UTC

klener wrote: post #348

"The Find My network is approaching a billion Apple devices and can detect Bluetooth signals from a lost AirTag and relay the location back to its owner, all in the background, anonymously and privately." Is a feature like this already in use?