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It would make sense to do the anti stalking notification after say 4 days "Your privacy and safety are important to Apple. We won't let anybody use these
by JohnBooty 6y ago
It would make sense to do the anti stalking
notification after say 4 days
"Your privacy and safety are important to Apple. We won't let anybody use these devices to stalk you for more than 96 hours."
You haven't thought this through! Seriously, the use cases for 96 hours of tracking are frightening.
1. Meet victim in club/bus/supermarket/wherever
2. Drop AirTag in their bag/pocket/whatever.
3. Now you know where they live and/or work assuming they go to one of those places in the next 96 hours.
- pmastela 6y agoWon't be long before magazines start offering tips on how to best avoid getting AirTagged.
- BoorishBears 6y agoSeeing as you can literally give someone a USB cable that tracks them, I don't think AirTags are enabling anything particularly new: https://www.walmart.com/ip/OURLEEME-Car-GPS-Tracker-Vehicle-Car-Tracking-Device-Micro-USB-Cable-Real-Time-GSM-GPS-Tracking/584408325 https://www.walmart.com/ip/OURLEEME-Car-GPS-Tracker-Vehicle-...
- nielsbot 6y agoMaybe so, but consider the optics...
- kelnos 6y agoThat USB cable doesn't work unless it's plugged into something that has power.
- BoorishBears 6y agoYes? Offer someone a USB cable and you've given them a GPS tracker that will show their home location But of course as I linked in another comment, trackers have been fit into anything and everything now. Hairbrushes, random trinkets like clocks, even a phone charging brick itself
- randyrand 6y agothat sounds like one of those issues everyone worries about but never happens.
- adamlett 6y agoSeriously, the use cases for 96 hours of tracking are frightening. Meet victim in club/bus/supermarket/wherever I'm not an expert, but I don't think this is how stalking works in practice. People don't stalk random strangers they meet in the supermarket. They stalk former partners, and (more rarely) people they've developed an obsession about. That means the stalker has to worry about being recognized by the victim, and consequently will have fewer opportunities to plant a device and retrieve a device than you imagine. Furthermore, while being tracked for up to 96 hours indeed is a frightening thought, the typical stalker's goal is to track their victim at all times. Having to plant and retrieve a device at least every four days, without being detected by the victim, makes for a very impractical way to achieve that goal.
- JohnBooty 6y agoI'm not an expert, but I don't think this is how stalking works in practice. People don't stalk random strangers they meet in the supermarket. They stalk former partners, and (more rarely) people they've developed an obsession about. Well, yeah -- I agree 100% that this is existing predator behavior, and most crimes will continue to be committed by a person known to the victim. However, if not properly safeguarded, this sort of tech clearly can enable some new types of bad behavior. Ultimately I'm a technology optimist and we shouldn't reject new tech simply because it might be misused. However it's also true that even the most cursory glance at history shows us that just about any new technology is also used for nefarious purposes.
- adamlett 6y agoThis I agree with. My contention was with what you first wrote, which made it seem like the 4 day limit was not meaningful. I think it makes all the difference for the reasons I laid out.
- pozdnyshev 6y agotechnology dogmatist* rather