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How many people were being stalked before AirTags with no way of realizing that it was happening?

• cptskippy 5y ago
  Are you suggested that the number of people being stalked has remained constant but the now a subset of those people now know they're being stalked? I would expect the number of people being stalked to starkly rise. I'd be more curious about the number of people being stalked with AirTags who don't realized it.
  • olliej 5y ago
    I suspect it hasn’t changed too much. Maybe there were some people on the edge and the ease pushes them over it, but stalker behaviour isn’t a sudden rush. It seems more likely that someone who is already a stalker adopts something that makes it easier. There was an article a few weeks/months back where a mother was unhappy that her daughter was angry when she found that the mother has planted an AirTag. The mother was point blank saying stuff like “I’m not stalking her I just want to know where she is”. Iirc the daughter was an adult who didn’t live at home. In other words stalker/possessive behavior isn’t a trivial thing, and like most behaviors of this sort isn’t something that can appear out of nowhere. That said, I do think it would be nice if apple could provide a mechanism for other manufacturers to integrate stalker protection directly, because the current app based solution is far from ideal.