{"id":992610,"date":"2022-02-16T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/apple-take-legal-steps-to-combat-airtag-stalking-incidents\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:52:37","slug":"apple-take-legal-steps-to-combat-airtag-stalking-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/apple-take-legal-steps-to-combat-airtag-stalking-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple take legal steps to combat AirTag stalking incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple have begun to take legal steps to tackle stalking incidents related to their AirTag. <\/p>\n

The AirTag device – which works via Bluetooth and iCloud to send the location of one Apple device to another via the FindMy app, designed to help users find their lost or stolen gadgets – had faced criticism following reports of stalking incidents and have announced that they are now “working with law enforcement” to deal with the complaints.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, Apple said: “We have been actively working with law enforcement on all AirTag-related requests we\u2019ve received. Based on our knowledge and on discussions with law enforcement, incidents of AirTag misuse are rare; however, each instance is one too many.”<\/p>\n

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The company went on to explain that each device has a unique serial number, which they can report to police to help tackle any incidents. The statement continued: “Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID. Apple can provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or valid request from law enforcement. <\/p>\n

We have successfully partnered with them on cases where information we provided has been used to trace an AirTag back to the perpetrator, who was then apprehended and charged.”<\/p>\n

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In order to combat the issue further, Apple have also announced that the next software update for the AirTag will feature an on-screen message which will “clearly state” that the AirTag is meant to track your own belongings and that using it to track people without consent is a crime.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple have begun to take legal steps to tackle stalking incidents related to their AirTag. The AirTag device – which works via Bluetooth and iCloud to send the location of one Apple device to another via the FindMy app, designed to help users find their lost or stolen gadgets – had faced criticism following reports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}