A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.

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• joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …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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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You would need a phone that offers that stuff in the first place. Maybe she didn’t.

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    • joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, yes. iPhones will check passively and Android phones can get an app but you have to check actively. Hopefully Apple and Google work on a solution for active detection on Android devices.

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• 30p87@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the woman probably had an iPhone herself and therefore literally gave him her position all the time herself. How nice of her.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you mean how nice of Apple? How the hell did you turn this around to be the victim’s fault?

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    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A more charitable reading might detect irony in that comment. Their intent might not have been victim-blaming.

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