Apple will launch an Android app to detect AirTags that may be in use to track a person and reduces the interval before AirTags sound an alert in such cases
and will offer an Android app later this year cc: @evacide https://www.cnet.com/... @pradeepviswav : @Techmeme @iansherr There should be a single app that can detect and alert users about stalking. Installing apps from every other tracker OEM is practically impossible. Daniel Bader / @journeydan : To address criticisms that Apple didn't do enough to protect Android users who could be inadvertently tracked by an AirTag, @CNET reports the alert times will be reduced to between 8 and 24 hours, and Apple will release an Android app to help locate tags https://www.cnet.com/... Stephen Shankland / @stshank : It's hard to square “buy this tracking device” with “privacy is a human right,” but Apple is making some adjustments. https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @iansherr
BREAKING: Apple is changing the timings for alerting people to AirTags they may not know are “traveling” with them. It's also building an Android detector app. Tip @techmeme https://www.cnet.com/...
I'm glad to see that Apple is making improvements to the AirTag to make it harder to use for stalking, but until there is an Android app that tells you if there are AirTags following you (late this year) I'm not letting them off the hook. https://twitter.com/...
@Techmeme @iansherr There should be a single app that can detect and alert users about stalking. Installing apps from every other tracker OEM is practically impossible.
Those with AirTag stalkerware concerns will welcome this news, but seemingly without realising it this article highlights a more subtle issue. Apple can remotely update all AirTags in its network. What else could an update change? How adaptable is this infrastructure? https://twi…
I guess @apple agreed with my @washingtonpost column on AirTag stalking: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @iansherr reports Apple is cutting the window for its stalking alerts from 3 days to 24 hours — and will offer an Android app later this year cc: @evacide https://www.cnet…
To address criticisms that Apple didn't do enough to protect Android users who could be inadvertently tracked by an AirTag, @CNET reports the alert times will be reduced to between 8 and 24 hours, and Apple will release an Android app to help locate tags https://www.cnet.com/...