But those bills would do little to help people at the time they are being tracked. Similar draft legislation is circulating in Pennsylvania. Lawmakers in Ohio and New Jersey have introduced bills that would criminalize tracking people unknowingly. Now, a handful of state legislatures are stepping into the ongoing safety debate with legislation designed to fill gaps in their criminal codes revealed by AirTag abuse.
But the phone notification she received included a map of her movements over the course of the evening, which disappeared as soon as she changed her phone settings to disable the tracking.
Since their introduction in April 2021, AirTags have been misused by thieves, stalkers and even murderers. But after reading Twitter threads detailing similar cases, she began to suspect that someone was using a different Apple product - AirTags, designed to help people track their belongings - to follow her movements. At first, Danielle Mathias wasn’t aware anything was amiss.īut after an evening out in Washington, D.C., a couple of weeks ago, a strange notification popped up on her phone - warning her that someone was using Apple’s Find My app to track her location, ostensibly via a pair of AirPod headphones.
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