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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by izacus on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:00PM (#30197010)
Tile also isn't nearly as sensitive because it needs people to install their app to opt-in to their tracking network.

Apple coopted every single phone into a tracker essentially creating a biggest people following and tracking network in the world - plus they use UWB which massively more accurate than what Tile uses.

What Apple created would be Facebooks, NSAs and pretty much every spying entities wet dream to get fingers on.

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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by Spooky23 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:09PM (#30197165)
> What Apple created would be Facebooks, NSAs and pretty much every spying entities wet dream to get fingers on.

No, Apple made it available to you. Police and intelligence agencies can buy this data from various entities or subpoena it.

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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by micromacrofoot on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:02PM (#30197041)
Yeah I get it, but Tile's network is still good enough to find someone's house in a somewhat densely populated area. I've done it.

>What Apple created would be Facebooks, NSAs and pretty much every spying entities wet dream to get fingers on.

The government already has this with cell phones, no?

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