{"id":51543,"date":"2022-02-13T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51543"},"modified":"2022-02-13T07:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T12:24:01","slug":"nytimes-i-used-apple-airtags-tiles-and-a-gps-tracker-to-watch-my-husbands-every-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51543","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband\u2019s Every Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NYTimes: I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband\u2019s Every Move<\/a> by Kashmir Hill (“A vast location-tracking network is being built around us so we don\u2019t lose our keys: One couple\u2019s adventures in the consumer tech surveillance state.”):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The app has an \u201cInstaFence\u201d feature that can alert me when the car moves, and a \u201cPlayback\u201d option to show where the car has been, so I could see the exact route on windy roads my husband had taken. I saw that he parked at 4:55 p.m., so I wasn\u2019t surprised when I got a text from him 12 minutes later reporting that they were in the waiting room.<\/p>

The other trackers in the car \u2014 the $34.99 Tile and $29 AirTag \u2014 didn\u2019t work as well in real time out in the sparsely populated area where we live. The AirTag, designed to find keys left behind \u201cat the beach,\u201d took an hour or so to reveal that the car was in the hospital parking lot. The Tile, intended to \u201cfind misplaced things nearby and far away,\u201d never realized it had moved from our garage. That\u2019s because these devices rely on Bluetooth technology.<\/p>

Rather than communing with satellites circling the planet, they ping devices within 30 or so feet of them, such as the smartphone held by another person standing in line at the pharmacy. To help track down AirTags, Apple enlisted, per its own description, \u201chundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads and Mac devices all over the world.\u201d That meant the AirTag\u2019s effectiveness skyrocketed the day my husband traveled to New York City, because he was surrounded by people carrying iPhones.<\/p>

Yes, the internet of things \u2014 our things \u2014 is coming alive around us, digitally frisking us as we walk by to see if we\u2019re carrying anything of interest.<\/p>

. . .<\/p>

The critics were right: Apple\u2019s safeguards against nefarious use weren\u2019t foolproof.<\/p>

Apple itself has realized the inadequacy of its safeguards and announced improvements this week, including making the devices louder and telling AirTag users that tracking someone without consent is a crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Remember Jones where placing GPS tracking devices is a trespass requiring a warrant for the government, but not individuals: snitches, errant police, untrusting confederates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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