• @joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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    186 months ago

    …placing at least seven AirTags on his ex-wife’s car to surveil her.

    Assuming the tags weren’t checking in with an owning device (iPhone) that car would’ve been beeping up a storm.

    I recently lent a set of work keys to a colleague that I forgot had an AirTag on them, in their words: “fucking things beeped all weekend and my phone kept telling me I’m being followed!”

    • flux
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      46 months ago

      Is there a way to temporarily disable tracking for circumstances such as this when you loan your keys or something?

      I suppose not, or people would disable it and then re-enable it later, unless they require proximity or some other protection against that.

      • @joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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        46 months ago

        Not that I’m aware of, for the reasons you mentioned. I believe you can now share AirTag locations with family members and that’ll count towards ‘checking in’ and not beep but nothing for sharing with someone outside of family members.