who here can already see clearly the NYPD officer's completely blank stare when you show them exactly where the car thief took your car. "did you see them do it? otherwise it's not our problem"
NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
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Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#12This article throws up many flags for me, not necessarily red, but of a worrying color. It first celebrates surveillance devices as a net positive and hand-waves away its problems. But most importantly, it is awfully shortsighted to allow a single company to entrench itself further into societal transactions. However, hearing it is inconvenient, so I am often dismissed for saying so. > They're made by Apple, which me…
21st century "let them eat cake"
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#13how does this not become giveaway stalkerware, instead of vehicle tracking, remove the noisemaker thing, and its just a matter of victim not having an ios phone to out the stalker airtag.
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Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#15This article throws up many flags for me, not necessarily red, but of a worrying color. It first celebrates surveillance devices as a net positive and hand-waves away its problems. But most importantly, it is awfully shortsighted to allow a single company to entrench itself further into societal transactions. However, hearing it is inconvenient, so I am often dismissed for saying so. > They're made by Apple, which me…
Video of "Why would anyone have one?"
Around 15:50: https://youtu.be/Vuw72THyXsQ?t=942
They were laughing at it. So hilarious, I'm in stitches over the ignorance.
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#16I wish more hardware products supported the "embedded airtag" feature enabled by the Apple Find My program that enables 3rd party manufactures to effectively embed airtags into their products.
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#17who here can already see clearly the NYPD officer's completely blank stare when you show them exactly where the car thief took your car. "did you see them do it? otherwise it's not our problem"
Have already seen this with other stolen property with other PDs across the country.
- "It's too risky"
- "not valuable enough"
- "could be dangerous"
- "can't prove your stolen item is where the GPS says"
- "can't dispatch an officer or detective just because you have a GPS location"
etc etc
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#18Unfortunately air tags only work in the Apple ecosystem.
See this regarding android phones: https://www.youtube.com/live/Vuw72THyXsQ?feature=share&t=947
"Why would anyone have one?"
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#19I've been doing this for a while with my car. Removed the speakers. Hid them in an inconvenient location that requires some minor disassembly of the car.
I use it all the time to figure out where my car is since my wife and I share and have street parking and live in a busy area.
I also slip airtags into my somewhat expensive jackets when going to events with coat check.