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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by LeoPanthera on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:24AM (#32505998)
Tiles, yes. Airtags, no. Although Apple provides an Android app that will tell you if someone has placed an Airtag on you without your knowledge.
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by jeroenhd on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:00AM (#32507391)
As far as I can find, Track Detect still doesn't automatically scan in the background, though? You'll have to run the app every time you suspect you're being tracked (which would mean "any time you leave from or return to somewhere" without background scans).
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by Boltgolt on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:33PM (#32512585)
Airguard is an open source app that can detect both Tiles and Airtags in the background: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t... Works quite well, has notified me of tags that are on a train with me quite a few times.
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by bencollier49 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:56AM (#32506212)
Do you have a link to that Android app? Can't find it and I suppose I ought to prevent the chance of my being tracked by someone for some reason.

That said, this abrogates most of the security functions of the tags, doesn't it?

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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by franga2000 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:18AM (#32506353)
"Tracker Detect": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...
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