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What's different from a thief stealing my bag and carrying it around in their car versus me putting an airtag in the exact same location without them knowing?
by sixothree 5y ago
What's different from a thief stealing my bag and carrying it around in their car versus me putting an airtag in the exact same location without them knowing?
If a thief has my bag I definitely don't want them knowing they're being tracked. Maybe I don't quite understand something about this announcement.
- dharmab 5y agoWere AirTags ever marketed as theft recovery devices? Or only as a lost and found system?
- sixothree 5y agoFor the user, there's little difference.
- tshaddox 5y agoIt’s honestly pretty silly to expect to track down thieves because they stole something with a tracking device in it. Are you really going to chase a thief and confront them? Do you really think the police are going to do it for you?
- w0mbat 5y agoIt is entirely reasonable to expect the police to recover stolen high value items whose location is known. Particuarly if the items were obtained with violence or weapons.
- NavinF 5y agoYeah the police do exactly that. When my father’s Android was stolen we called the cops and they told us to the park a block away from the thief’s house (last ping from Find My Device) and wait for them. They took a report from us, confronted the thief at his house, and got the phone back. The thief claimed that he found it at the post office and intended to return it, but the phone was in airplane mode (accessible from the lock screen) so that was clearly never gonna happen. This was in San Jose.