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The $29 silver and white gadget, the size of a large coin, is \"an easy way to keep track of your stuff,\" the Apple<\/a> website boasts. Customers can attach it to their keys, a wallet or a backpack.
When linked to a smartphone app, an AirTag<\/a> allows a user to follow their belongings' real-time geographic location in case they get lost -- but the little round transmitter can also trail the humans carrying those items, sometimes without their knowledge.
That's what happened to singer Alison Carney in June 2022, when she found an unknown AirTag in her bag while preparing to go on stage at a concert venue in Chicago.
Carney had not put the AirTag in there herself and says she never got an iPhone<\/a> notification warning her that an unknown accessory is found nearby.
- 'Violated' -<\/strong>
Though unsettling, the discovery of the AirTag in her bag also helped Carney make sense of several confusing events in her life.
Ever since the breakup of their tumultuous relationship, Carney's ex-boyfriend had been incessantly calling and messaging her, even sometimes pounding on her door in the middle of the night or showing up at restaurants where she was eating.
\"It just became obvious once we found the AirTag that... I wasn't crazy,\" Carney, who lives in Washington, told AFP. \"I know that someone's tracking (me).\"
\"I felt violated. I retreated. I stopped going out,\" she added.
\"I know that someone has the ability to put a device on my body or on my property that can track me for the rest of my life, and they're getting smaller and smaller and smaller and harder to detect.\"
Carney is not the only person in the United States who has been tracked against their will with an AirTag.
Last June, a 26-year-old man in Indiana was killed by his girlfriend, who followed his location via AirTag after she became suspicious he was cheating on her, according to court documents.
Police in the town of Irving, Texas, are also looking into several recent incidents involving Apple AirTags<\/a> in which the victim and the stalker already knew each other, said police spokesman Robert Reeves.
According to Reeves, the next step after a complaint is filed is to identify the owner of the account associated with the AirTag, using the object's serial number.
But Carney has never had the chance to find out exactly who is connected to the rogue AirTag found in her bag -- she has not filed a police report, for fear of retribution.
When asked about the situation, Apple sent AFP a statement published last year, in which the tech giant condemns \"in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products.\"
The company also said it has updated its systems to warn customers who purchase AirTags that they may be committing a crime by using the product to secretly track another person and to alert Apple users when a device notices an unknown tracker traveling with them.
- Complaints against Apple -<\/strong>
But that reassurance is not enough to convince Lauren Hughes and a woman going by the pseudonym Jane Doe, who have filed complaints against Apple in California.
Doe says that after a divorce, her ex-husband tacked an AirTag onto her child's backpack twice.
And in a complaint filed in December, Hughes says she found an AirTag -- colored on with a marker and wrapped in a plastic bag -- attached to the wheel well of her car.
In court documents, both women call out Apple for what they see as an insufficient warning system. AirTag alerts sent out by the company are not necessarily immediate, and are only available on iPhones<\/a> with iOS 14.5 or newer.
Besides older Apple devices<\/a>, users of Androids or other smartphone operating systems are also left out, according to Albert Cahn, Technology and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard University.
Apple devices<\/a> are constantly scanning for unknown accessories nearby, Cahn explained to AFP. But Android users have to download a special app and then specifically look for potentially nefarious AirTags.
\"Does Apple expect Android users to spend their days constantly checking just to make sure they're not being tracked?\" he asked.
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AirTag骚扰受害者不相信苹果的修复
29美元的银色和白色的小玩意,一个大硬币的大小,是“一种简单的方法来记录你的东西,“苹果网站拥有。客户可以将它附加到他们的钥匙,钱包或背包。
29美元的银色和白色的小玩意,一个大硬币的大小,是“一种简单的方法来记录你的东西,”苹果网站拥有。客户可以将它附加到他们的钥匙,钱包或背包。
当连接到一个智能手机应用程序,一个AirTag允许用户按照物品的实时地理位置,以防他们迷路了,但小圆发射机也可以追踪人类携带这些物品,有时没有他们的知识。
这就是发生在歌手艾莉森·卡尼在2022年6月,当她在她包里发现一个未知的AirTag准备上台时在芝加哥音乐会场地。
卡尼还没有把AirTag放进去,说她从来没有一个iPhone通知警告她,一个未知的附属附近被发现。
——“侵犯”了
虽然不安,在她包里发现AirTag还帮助卡尼几个令人困惑的事件在她生活的意义。
自从分手的混乱关系,卡尼的前男友一直不停地调用和消息传递,有时甚至在半夜敲她的门或出现在餐馆吃。
“这就成了明显的一次我们发现AirTag……我没有疯狂,”卡尼,住在华盛顿告诉法新社。“我知道有人跟踪(我)。”
“我觉得侵犯。我撤退。我不再出去,”她补充道。
“我知道有人能够把设备放在我的身体还是我的财产,可以跟踪我的余生,他们变得越来越小,越来越小,难以察觉。”
卡尼在美国并不是唯一的人一直跟踪AirTag违背他们的意愿。
去年6月,一名26岁男子在印第安纳州被他的女朋友,他跟着他的位置通过AirTag产生了怀疑,他欺骗她后,根据法庭文件。
,德州欧文镇的警察,也调查最近的一些事故苹果AirTags的受害者和跟踪者已经知道彼此,警方发言人罗伯特·里夫斯说。
Reeves说,提起投诉之后下一步是确定与AirTag关联帐户的所有者,使用对象的序列号。
但是卡尼从来没有机会去发现到底谁连接到流氓AirTag在她包里发现的,她没有向警方报告,因为害怕惩罚。
当被问及这种情况,苹果派法新社去年发表的一份声明中,科技巨头的谴责“最严厉的任何恶意的使用我们的产品。”
该公司还说,它已经更新其系统提醒顾客购买AirTags他们可能犯罪通过使用产品秘密跟踪另一个人,提醒苹果用户设备时注意到一个未知的追踪与他们旅行。
——投诉苹果
但那安慰并不足以说服劳伦·休斯和一个女人Jane Doe的假名,在加州对苹果提起投诉。
能源部说,离婚后,前夫钉AirTag到她的孩子的背包两次。
12月的起诉书中,休斯说,她发现一个AirTag——彩色标记和包装在一个塑料袋,连着她的车的轮舱。
在法庭文件中,两个女人叫出苹果对于他们所看到的一个不足预警系统。AirTag警报发出的公司并不一定立即,只上可用iphone与iOS 14.5或更新的版本。
除了老苹果设备,机器人或其他智能手机操作系统的用户也排除,阿尔伯特·卡恩称,技术和人权哈佛大学研究员。
苹果设备不断扫描附近未知的配件,卡恩告诉法新社。但是Android用户必须下载一个特殊的程序,然后专门寻找潜在的邪恶AirTags。
“苹果预计Android用户花天不断地检查以确保他们没有被跟踪吗?”他问。
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