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The greatest success of AirTags is its silent refutation of the clamoring concern trolling. It's been, what, six years now? The media would pay hand over fist
by prodigycorp 9mo ago
The greatest success of AirTags is its silent refutation of the clamoring concern trolling.
It's been, what, six years now? The media would pay hand over fist for an airtags stalking story and how many have there actually been?
- throwaway290 9mo agoYou mean how many where perp was caught?
- chasil 9mo agoThe woman who ran over her cheating boyfriend was caught. https://www.ktvu.com/news/woman-allegedly-tracks-boyfriend-with-airtags-kills-him-over-alleged-affair https://www.ktvu.com/news/woman-allegedly-tracks-boyfriend-w...
- rationalist 9mo agoI'm guessing murder is probably easier to prove than rape.
- throwaway290 9mo agoAre you saying there is definitely no unsolved crime involving airtag?)
- superxpro12 9mo agoI mean, i remember a lot of posts about people using them for stalking. It's unclear if this has been addressed or if the concern has been deprioritized, or if apple solved the problem somehow. I mean it was enough of a concern that Android added a "detect airtags" feature to the base android OS.
- WorldMaker 9mo agoApple had its version of "stalking detection" (that equivalent of Android's "detect airtags") from early rollout. (There's a screenshot in the attached article even.) Some of the scrutiny and early complaints was that ecosystem divide that needed Android to also support at least a basic form of that same feature before people would feel safe, and everyone knew that Apple themselves weren't going to build the Android version.
- nl 9mo agoBoth Apple and Android have had anti-stalking features for years.