'Tragically, in multiple instances, AirTag tracking led directly to a murder,' according to a class-action lawsuit against Apple, which was updated to add more than three dozen new plaintiffs.
What bit was incorrect? And don’t give me BS about reading the article. If you want to refute what I said I’m gonna need a direct quote because literally most of my post came from multiple articles on the subject going back to May of 2021.
This article is dated December 13th 2021. At that time Apple’s Tracker Detect app did not even do active scans without input from the user.
When it launched it wasn’t available internationally, and only worked on Android 9 or higher devices.
“But it’s only available for Android 9 and higher, which rules out many of the devices at the cheap end of the Android ecosystem which are often used by vulnerable populations.”
Additionally you can modify airtags to remove or disable the speaker and the Tracker Detect app doesn’t work the way the iPhone app does on newer iPhones so the app will make a noise but the tracker won’t if the speaker is disabled making it harder to locate. It may also be harder to locate in the event that you’re using the android app because it’s not a system level app so it won’t use every single accelerometer and what not in the phone to give you an accurate location for the air tag.
You can use NFC to scan an airtag in the event that you find one. But if someone tapes an air tag to your gas tank or the underside of your car it’s unlikely that you’ll find it unless you know you’re being tracked and even if you do find it (with an updated app that does scans etc). That doesn’t mean everyone will specifically because of incompatibility with older phones and with non apple non android variant phones.
What bit was incorrect? And don’t give me BS about reading the article. If you want to refute what I said I’m gonna need a direct quote because literally most of my post came from multiple articles on the subject going back to May of 2021.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-launches-airtags-and-find-my-detector-app-for-android-in-effort-to-boost-privacy/
This article is dated December 13th 2021. At that time Apple’s Tracker Detect app did not even do active scans without input from the user.
When it launched it wasn’t available internationally, and only worked on Android 9 or higher devices.
“But it’s only available for Android 9 and higher, which rules out many of the devices at the cheap end of the Android ecosystem which are often used by vulnerable populations.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/apples-android-app-scan-airtags-necessary-step-forward-more-anti-stalking
Additionally you can modify airtags to remove or disable the speaker and the Tracker Detect app doesn’t work the way the iPhone app does on newer iPhones so the app will make a noise but the tracker won’t if the speaker is disabled making it harder to locate. It may also be harder to locate in the event that you’re using the android app because it’s not a system level app so it won’t use every single accelerometer and what not in the phone to give you an accurate location for the air tag.
You can use NFC to scan an airtag in the event that you find one. But if someone tapes an air tag to your gas tank or the underside of your car it’s unlikely that you’ll find it unless you know you’re being tracked and even if you do find it (with an updated app that does scans etc). That doesn’t mean everyone will specifically because of incompatibility with older phones and with non apple non android variant phones.
May I ask that you read the article I linked and compare it to your statement of suggesting nothing was done for Android until 2023?
Oh. You mean the bit where I said active scanning was finally available in 2023. From Google. But only on devices with android lollipop or higher?
Yep. Completely factual.