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Re:LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and sno... by brookst on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:05AM (#49623977)
Fair point on the forwarding being non-disable-able. But I don’t see any privacy issue there. The forwarder provides observed obfuscated ID and location, which seems less fraught than even the signal strength metadata returned to cell towers.

I had misinterpreted “you can’t block the tracking” to mean of your own phone, rather than of devices that other people want tracked.

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Re:LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and sno... by lazide on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:51PM (#49629513)
It joins phone location + tagid to provide location info of all tags. the backend then (hopefully) filters out tags people don’t want to track.

‘obfusication’ of IDs isn’t a meaningful thing here, or literally none of it would work.

the whole point of airtags is your phone doesn’t need to be anywhere near the tag to find it.

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