DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool

Re:DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool by callalex on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:01AM (#36938973)

It’s not clear from the article what makes individual trackers a “surveillance network” and how this is unique from any other commercially available location tracker.

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Re:DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool by tamimio on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:47AM (#36939199)

Probably because it utilizes Apple network and maybe iPhones are the devices mostly used by drug dealers?

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Re:DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool by yxre on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:20AM (#36940659)

Apple products communicate with each other even if they don't know each other, so an airtag will utilize the cellular of a nearby iphone in order to get information to apple's servers. I think google has a tracker that does something similar.

Its easy to imagine that previous generation tracking devices that sends its information across a broader range than an airtag will need to be larger battery thus being larger.

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Re:DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool by Tokumei-no-hito on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:48AM (#36941247)

FYI this can be disabled

Settings > your name (at the top) > find my > find my iPhone > find my network

Disable this to opt out

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