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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by briffle on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:08PM (#29618439)
And both should be simple for the police to link to the owner, if they are reported. Maybe a bit less so for a SIM card, but that AirTag is registered with someone’s phone
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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by edgedetector on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:12PM (#29620064)
"So not even Apple knows the location of your AirTag or the identity of the device that helps find it."
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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by ted_dunning on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:57PM (#29620402)
Correct. And if you read that carefully, it does not say that Apple doesn't know who the owner is. The owner, in this case, is not whose phone reported the tag.
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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by nickphx on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:53PM (#29620369)
neither of those statements say anything about identifying who purchased the air tag and what apple account is tied to the air tag.. you do realize that for someone to be able to find the location of the airtag, it has to be tied to their icloud account? the airtags have a serial number. it's trivial for apple to identify what icloud account is associated to the tag by serial number..
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