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No you're missing the point in that it doesn't matter. If you're on Android or iPhone, you're already being tracked. Airtags just piles on to this pile of priva
by stuff4ben 5y ago
No you're missing the point in that it doesn't matter. If you're on Android or iPhone, you're already being tracked. Airtags just piles on to this pile of privacy wasting garbage.
- dyingkneepad 5y agoAirtag opens the possibility for normal people to easily track you. With Android is just the tech companies and entities that have control over them.
- sneak 5y agoGPS tracking devices with integrated cellular to upload real-time location 24/7 are already widely available to the general public. Airtags aren't some new possibility.
- a4isms 5y agoMy partner and I had GPS trackers on our MTBs almost a decade ago, with cellular data just as you describe. Our doubled as rear lights, but the same company sold another model that could be hidden inside the frame, amd a thid model designed to be attached to cars, boats, motorcycles, &c. Stalking via GPS tracker is not new. What is new is going to be the “crime of opportunity:” Somebody who doesn’t plan and think through how to stalk somebody else, but in the heat of the moment they decide to try it, and the AirTags or Tiles or whatever they already own is close at hand. I suspect that’s the factor of concern with AirTags being likely to become ubiquitous.