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A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S. (www.404media.co)
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

…placing at least seven AirTags on his ex-wife's car to surveil her.

Assuming the tags weren’t checking in with an owning device (iPhone) that car would’ve been beeping up a storm.

I recently lent a set of work keys to a colleague that I forgot had an AirTag on them, in their words: “fucking things beeped all weekend and my phone kept telling me I’m being followed!”

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You would need a phone that can detect that stuff in the first place. Maybe she didn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is there a way to temporarily disable tracking for circumstances such as this when you loan your keys or something?

    I suppose not, or people would disable it and then re-enable it later, unless they require proximity or some other protection against that.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Not that I’m aware of, for the reasons you mentioned. I believe you can now share AirTag locations with family members and that’ll count towards ‘checking in’ and not beep but nothing for sharing with someone outside of family members.

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