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Out of interest, what’s your concern with your phone reporting the location of other devices?
by avianlyric 5y ago
Out of interest, what’s your concern with your phone reporting the location of other devices?
- zzyzxd 5y agoYou can extract a lot of information by knowing how frequent an AirTag has been approached by random iPhones. For instance, if I toss an AirTag into my neighbor's yard, I can get some idea on when they leave/return back to the house by monitoring the AirTag's update timestamps. I can later use this data to build their activity patterns and whatnot. I understand that Apple has some mechanism to mitigate this, like "reporting stranger's airtags in frequent accessed locations", but unless it is proven to be reliable, I can't trust it.