Posted on 04/30/2021 8:05:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Last week, Apple announced its new AirTags — $29 location-tracking fobs that can help find your keys or purse anywhere in the world. The devices, which are roughly the diameter of a quarter, have since been tested and lauded by tech journalists, including our own.
But technology often comes with unintended consequences, explain representatives from the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), a leading nonprofit with the goal of ending violence against women. NNEDV sits on advisory boards for Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Uber and has consulted for both Google and Apple in the past (but not on AirTags). The organization’s representatives say that while Apple AirTags are a cheap, easy-to-use product to find a lost item, they are also a worrisome surveillance tool that could be leveraged by an abuser to discreetly track a partner. An AirTag simply needs to be slipped into someone’s bag or jacket pocket to track exactly where they go.
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I think these would be great to affix to our kids. Gives us quick means to always know where they are. Used properly, a great safety tool. Sure, there are abusive uses, but that can be said for everything. Punish the misuse.
Absolutely, I can think of many uses. Tracking lost luggage, finding where you parked a rental car, keeping an eye on kids or cars,
“So tracking a cheating spouse is now domestic abuse.”
Not related to thread
Apple intro’d these (at long last, after many rumors) primarily because the Tile has been such a big hit with iPhone users. Similar thing happened years ago, SanDisk had the Rio player, which was huge in the Mac community of the time, and Stevie intro’d the iPod.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tile-find-lost-keys-phone/id664939913
“How is this different than a Tile. I’ve been using those for years.”
The article contains your answer.
“They can do that with any smartphone now!...............”
Different tech
They can be misleading, though.
My wife tried one of those apps with her own phone. It showed her going down the road about 3 miles from home.
It’s because there’s signals pinging different cell towers at the same time, and depending on signa strength, atmospheric conditions, buildings, hills, etc. they can give a false display...........................
I think it implies there could be violence, mayhem and murder..................
More wide-area capability, but your point is valid.
Yes, and they can be misleading or at least not very accurate................
That’ll do it! :D
Not with Tile, just tracking her own phone in her hand!.....................
Putting in the trunk would block the signal I would suspect..................
Abuse is considered and addressed within the Find My system. Go research the system before criticizing it.
Amazing how many people think long planned highly expensive security systems developed by motivated experts can be defeated by the ignorant with 10 seconds of snark.
The government is developing a mini micro version which can be injected with the next vaccination shot. Never let a good crisis go to waste!
I’m quite sure that DV shelters will quickly begin offering the advice to attach this to the back of a semi if you plan on running.
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Why does the left insist on thinking that everyone else is stupid? Asked for the sake of rhetoric, I KNOW the answer.
When was the last time I lost something that would have been valuable enough to me to bother putting a tag on it? Ummmmm…maybe when I was 15 years old. That was a long time ago. Who the heck needs or wants to put little tags on everything they own?
I’m always shown driving down the middle of the river or going 3,239,750 mph.
Liar! You meander and you know it, you sick son of a...
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