What Apple Should Do To Make AirTags Safer For Women Or Men Who Are Tracked Without Their Knowledge
Every week there's a story on the news about an Apple AirTag Used To Steal A Car or Follow Someone That Didn't Know They Were Being Tracked.
AirTags have become trackers used to spy on people who don't know they have one on their car or even in their purse. Cars are being tracked and then stolen from driveways. Women are getting notifications that they're being tracked or followed by an AirTag.
Apple AirTags Are Designed To Protect Their Owners Privacy Not The Privacy Of People Being Stalked Or Tracked Without Their Consent
Apple did not intend for AirTags to be used to track or stalk or steal. They even put some privacy measures in place to discourage ill--use. But Apple needs to go further and make changes to protect un-suspecting victims. Here are some easy to implement commons sense ideas to make AirTags safer for those being tracked without their consent.
Apple, if you're listening--you need to make these changes:
1. Once the AirTag is a specific distance away from it's owner, it should immediately notify any other iPhone in the vicinity.
How far should that distance be? 500 feet? A block, one mile? Think about it, most people buy AirTags for their keys. Those keys are usually "missing" in their own homes or offices.
2. Air Tags should play the sound immediately when they are not within a certain range of their owners.
Apple now has them programmed to sound-off at a random time between 8 and 24 hours. And that sound should be the same length and volume that plays when an AirTag owner plays the sound to find their missing AirTag
3. Any AirTag that's away from it's owner and traveling with someone else should be readily identified with the click of a prompt.
Why should an AirTag owner who supposedly has an AirTag on something that's moving away from them need their identity protected? They put an AirTag on their things so they could lose them and find them, why should who they are be a secret from anyone who has their lost stuff near them?
4. Apple now prevents old notifications that an Airtag is in your vicinity from Playing A Sound.
Why? If someone receives a notification that an Airtag was found traveling with them, they should be able to play that sound again and again- until that AirTag is found.
