AirTags Anti-Stalking Features
Discussions focus on Apple's AirTag anti-tracking notifications that alert iPhone users to unknown tags traveling with them, debating their impact on preventing stalking versus limiting utility for tracking lost or stolen items like bikes.
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(in case elaboration is useful: AirTag relies on GPS location reports from user unaware iOS phones. This enables a stalker to throw a tag into your backpack and follow you. iOS notifies this happening to the user based on tag ID, and presumably GP meant that cycling through fake IDs could bypass triggering that.)
And AirTags even alert those (iPhone users) being tracked so they are even less practical
The AirTags are explicitly designed to track lost items, not stolen items.
Apple has made no attempt at getting consent from whomever the airtag is on. Maybe if you have an iphone it could alert you.
AirTags have this feature where you are notified if an unrecognised tag is travelling with you, right? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227That makes them not as useful of these kind of applications, no? Or what is the range of this feature?
Are airtags still useful for eg. tracking a stolen bike? Or will it now alert the thief within minutes that the bike contains a tracker?
What's your worry about the static AirTag scenario?
How does Apple's anti-tracking for AirTags make them unusable?
what? This isn't apple tracking you, this is a defense against other people hiding an AirTag on your person and them using it to track you.
Airtags could be detected if the thief has an iPhone and gets a warning that they're being tracked.