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It was all over the tech news space back in November that a woman was alerted to one that was moving with her. Someone attached it to her car. And again in Jan

It was all over the tech news space back in November that a woman was alerted to one that was moving with her. Someone attached it to her car. And again in January. https://www.wbrc.com/2021/11/18/woman-discovers-tracking-device-her-vehicle-after-receiving-iphone-alert/ https://www.wbrc.com/2021/11/18/woman-discovers-tracking-dev... https://www.insideedition.com/atlanta-woman-cant-find-apple-airtag-on-her-car-thats-tracking-her-every-move-72629 https://www.insideedition.com/atlanta-woman-cant-find-apple-...

jdminhbg 5y ago
You'll note that there's never ever a culprit in a single one of these stories, and nobody ever successfully carries out the crime by actually showing up to an apartment or cornering someone in their car. It's classic urban legend stuff. Would you expect people to sometimes get away with committing a crime like stalking? Yes. Would you expect every single person who commits stalking in this way to always, without exception, get away with it? Of course not. The parsimonious explanation is that the vast majority of these stories are simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
  > simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere. The uniquity of technology gives real stalkers this nice excuse. How convenient!
  - jdminhbg 5y ago
    Very convenient. So much so that there must be one story of someone actually being attacked rather than just finding an AirTag, right?
    - Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
      So you are claiming that nobody of the attacked females were stalked and found using AirTags? https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17272409/how-stay-safe-apple-airtags-stalking-you/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17272409/how-stay-safe-apple-a... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/apple-airtags-stalking-complaints-technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/apple-air... How many stalking victims never found out they are tracked because they used Android phones? How many perpetrators just covertly removed the AirTag after the attack? This device allows very clandestine surveillance by anyone.
      - jdminhbg 5y ago
        Did you read those articles? Neither of them actually shows someone showing up in a location as a result of using AirTags to track someone. They show someone finding an AirTag that wasn't theirs. I'm willing to grant that the number of people caught would be lower than the number of people who were actually successful -- we don't catch every murderer, for example. But isn't there one, just one, example of someone actually showing up? Nobody ever gets caught? Like I said, this is classic urban legend material.

jdminhbg 5y ago

You'll note that there's never ever a culprit in a single one of these stories, and nobody ever successfully carries out the crime by actually showing up to an apartment or cornering someone in their car. It's classic urban legend stuff. Would you expect people to sometimes get away with committing a crime like stalking? Yes. Would you expect every single person who commits stalking in this way to always, without exception, get away with it? Of course not. The parsimonious explanation is that the vast majority of these stories are simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
> simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere. The uniquity of technology gives real stalkers this nice excuse. How convenient!
- jdminhbg 5y ago
  Very convenient. So much so that there must be one story of someone actually being attacked rather than just finding an AirTag, right?
  - Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
    So you are claiming that nobody of the attacked females were stalked and found using AirTags? https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17272409/how-stay-safe-apple-airtags-stalking-you/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17272409/how-stay-safe-apple-a... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/apple-airtags-stalking-complaints-technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/apple-air... How many stalking victims never found out they are tracked because they used Android phones? How many perpetrators just covertly removed the AirTag after the attack? This device allows very clandestine surveillance by anyone.
    - jdminhbg 5y ago
      Did you read those articles? Neither of them actually shows someone showing up in a location as a result of using AirTags to track someone. They show someone finding an AirTag that wasn't theirs. I'm willing to grant that the number of people caught would be lower than the number of people who were actually successful -- we don't catch every murderer, for example. But isn't there one, just one, example of someone actually showing up? Nobody ever gets caught? Like I said, this is classic urban legend material.