99% of the tracking notifications are given to my family members. It’s hilarious that you can’t “join” a family members tag so it can be shared within the family.
Being in an iCloud family does suppress the tracking notifications.
An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
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Re: An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
#92"It’s why the Find My network is built with privacy in mind, uses end-to-end encryption..."
"Apple can provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or valid request from law enforcement"
Hmm
Re: An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
#93Hot take: There is no conceivable way to make Airtags safe, and they should be banned entirely.
The problem is that by leveraging Apple devices to get worldwide geolocation and data service effectively for free, they make tracking trivially easy in a way that no other entity could.
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#94"It’s why the Find My network is built with privacy in mind, uses end-to-end encryption..." "Apple can provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or valid request from law enforcement" Hmm
From my understanding, location is E2E but they still register the serial to your account.
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#95Hot take: There is no conceivable way to make Airtags safe, and they should be banned entirely. The problem is that by leveraging Apple devices to get worldwide geolocation and data service effectively for free, they make tracking trivially easy in a way that no other entity could.
Should all GPS trackers be banned then? The problem with AirTags is they're accessible; these problems have always existed with any kind of GPS tracking.
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#9699% of the tracking notifications are given to my family members. It’s hilarious that you can’t “join” a family members tag so it can be shared within the family.
Are you on a shared iCloud account? This never happens to my wife and I but we’re on the same iCloud family account.
Interesting. Just one data point, but my wife and I both have airtags on our keys. When I drive her car (and she's not in it), I get a notification about her keys traveling with me. We're on the same iCloud "family" account. I wonder if there’s something else that needs to happen?
Re: An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
#9799% of the tracking notifications are given to my family members. It’s hilarious that you can’t “join” a family members tag so it can be shared within the family.
Being in an iCloud family does suppress the tracking notifications.
i.e. completely stop or just reduce? Because I was going to say it would make sense for the "threat model" to go beyond "traditional" stalking to domestic abuse etc.
Re: An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
#98The funny thing is that people just remove the speakers of that small thingy and hence it should just be banned as a whole
Re: An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
#99Hot take: There is no conceivable way to make Airtags safe, and they should be banned entirely. The problem is that by leveraging Apple devices to get worldwide geolocation and data service effectively for free, they make tracking trivially easy in a way that no other entity could.
I don't see how you can ban AirTags without also banning products like Tile
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being in an iCloud family does suppress the tracking notifications.
i.e. completely stop or just reduce? Because I was going to say it would make sense for the "threat model" to go beyond "traditional" stalking to domestic abuse etc.
Completely stop.