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The worst part of this is, if you don’t have an iPhone, you’ll never know if you’re being tracked. Edit: Yes, I know there’s an app. Do you think more than 1% of victims will have it installed?
how do I see airtags around me with my iphone? on "find my" I just see my own apple stuff.
Does anyone know how to disable this for specific known AirTags?
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I believe that's where the advice to hand an AirTag to the authorities come from? From here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212227
I’m not convinced this is a priority for police. Air tags seem to be a net negative for all.
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You may not live in a large American city. It’s a bad place to rely on the cops in my experience.
I do, and this is an appropriate situation to call them about, regardless of your race. There are problems with the police, to be sure, but this is not a situation where someone is getting beaten up (or worse) over a traffic stop or misidentification during the commission of a crime.
Women have all kinds of valid reasons to stay as far away from cops as they can, women of color, queer/nb/trans women even more.
Some PDs have changed procedures and established special, often female-led, teams to deal with cases involving such sensitive scenarios... but they're not many to begin with.
[1]: https://psmag.com/news/stalker-cop-police-protection-danger-...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/20/my-frie...
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how do I see airtags around me with my iphone? on "find my" I just see my own apple stuff.
iPhone will send an alert to you if unknown AirTag is following you around.
GPS trackers designed to be magnet-attached to a car which report their location via cell signal cost ~$20 on Amazon. You then tend to need to pay for either a SIM card or a subscription to the device maker's service -- bringing you up to about the cost of an AirTag. These are much harder to detect, as you might imagine.
The Apple device does try to make itself less useful for abusive purposes. Nearby iPhones will notify you if there's an AirTag following you. Apple released an Android app to scan for them (manually -- it'd probably be nice if they released something that did the same passive scanning as iPhones get, but there's battery trade-offs there, and obviously most people won't have that app). AirTags will also beep if they're separated from their owner.
In fact, this is news we're hearing about because of the steps Apple took to make it harder to use these devices for bad purposes. The tweet author got a warning about the device following them.
It's tricky to make something that lets you find where you dropped your keys while walking the dog that can't also be used for nefarious purposes.
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which currently has a rating of 2/5 because of how terrible it is.
Did you read the reviews ? Maybe because the bad guys do not want you to use it. You need to underestand that there are a lot of people paid to have an opinion on the internet.
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According to the tweet thread: >this morning while I was asleep I had someone close to me check my car and they found it stuck on the underside of my front passenger wheel well. I wish he took pics before he threw it away If I found a tracking device on the car of someone close to me, I certainly wouldn't throw it away without showing them and insisting that they go to the police. Why would they just throw it away?
Because it never happened.
>I didn’t wanna go home, so I spent the night somewhere and just said I’d figure it out in the morning.
So they stayed somewhere and said they would figure it out in the morning. Ok, that's reasonable.
>this morning while I was asleep I had someone close to me check my car
How did they tell someone to search the car while they were asleep? They said they would figure it out "in the morning" when they were awake. Some time between deciding to figure it out in the morning and waking up, they told someone to search their car?
If it didn't happen, being asleep while someone searched your car would be the reason why they threw the device away without your permission. If you were awake when they threw it away, that would be a lot more difficult to believe.
Lightbug uses GPS and has a 6 year battery with a size smaller than a credit card. Ultimately there's no way to put the cat in the bag.
I'd argue it's not possible for a tracker to exist that cannot be used for bad purposes.
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You may not live in a large American city. It’s a bad place to rely on the cops in my experience.
I do, and this is an appropriate situation to call them about, regardless of your race. There are problems with the police, to be sure, but this is not a situation where someone is getting beaten up (or worse) over a traffic stop or misidentification during the commission of a crime.