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AirTag again exposes lies told by airlines about lost luggage (appleinsider.com)

submitted 10 months ago by octalfudge@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

my iPhone was telling me that my AirTag was showing [the luggage] live in Toronto," said Sih. "It would update every few minutes when it would ping off someone's phone."

The way this works creeps me out

[–] RajaGila@feddit.nl 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's not that as bad as it seems. The way it is set up is actually very privacy-minded with the use of cryptography. I would encourage you to read more about this.

The primary safety concern is stalking. For example when a stalker puts an AirTag on your belongings or vehicle. iPhones can detect unknown airtags moving with you. Android devices should gain this capability in the future.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We had some issues with sensitive equipment being left behind at people's homes, so someone suggested putting airtags in the cases so we could easily find them. There was an email explaining this was being done.

Cue 2 weeks of employees getting "unknown tracker alerts" on their phones and asking WTF was going on.

[–] BoredomAddict@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My android already has this! It's a setting called Unknown Tracker Alerts

[–] RajaGila@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

Then they released that already. Nice.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Android devices should gain this capability in the future.

Gross, please no. I don't care how much cryptography they use, I still hate the idea of being opted-in to my personal hardware being part of a corporate run botnet for tracking devices.

[–] RajaGila@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I meant the feature where it can detect if an unknown AirTag is travelling with you. Not the part where it will participate in the find my network. I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then opt out?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You should not have to. This is not how device ownership should work. I don't want to own any devices that were designed by people who think this is a reasonable thing to do.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Idk what phone you have today (though it sounds like android) , but by those standards I can almost guarentee that you already have a phone that does similarly privacy invading things

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They're giving Android phones the ability to detect Apple tags so you can notice you have one "following" you. You won't be providing GPS updates to Apple as I understand it, nor will you be able to use Apple tags without an iPhone.

[–] Skiptrace@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago

I believe they already can detect unknown airtags. But they aren't usable in the Airtag network.