My son manages a tire store in town. A few months back, a police officer arrived in his cruiser with a woman in her car. She thought she was being tracked. They put the car on the lift to examine it and found an AirTag encased in sprayable foam insulation on the underside of the car!
The woman was right. I don’t know how she suspected somebody was tracking her, but that was sure a rotten, sneaky thing to do slapping that tag on her car. The perp clearly knew how to do it to weather-protect the tag and came prepared with the right materials.
Needed to wrap the car in a Faraday bag..
Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID. Apple can provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or valid request from law enforcement. We have successfully partnered with them on cases where information we provided has been used to trace an AirTag back to the perpetrator, who was then apprehended and charged.So if you want to track someone, maybe go with some offbrand Chinese equipment rather than something that can be easily traced back to you.