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Title: Review sees if Apple's AirTag prevents stalking with mixed results Post by: HCK on May 06, 2021, 04:05:19 pm Review sees if Apple's AirTag prevents stalking with mixed results
Apple may have some adjusting to do with its new item tracker. What you need to know The Washington Post ran a stalking test for AirTag. The results were mixed, especially for Android users. Apple's AirTag may have more work to do to deter stalking. A new review from The Washington Post put AirTag to the test when it comes to potential stalking issues. Geoffrey A. Fowler had his colleague Jonathan Baran slip an AirTag into his bag and try to stalk him across San Francisco for a week. The purpose was simple: would Geoffrey get alerted enough to realize he was being tracked by someone else? While he did get alerted, he found mixed results. For one, the audible alert from the unwanted AirTag only rand after three days. And, while his iPhone did get an alert quite quickly, those aren't currently available to Android users. So, theoretically, someone could stalk an Android user for three days before they would be alerted that they were being tracked. I got multiple alerts: from... Source: Review sees if Apple's AirTag prevents stalking with mixed results (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/MfjPOnTKHMk/washington-post-airtag-review-points-out-potential-stalking-issues) |