{"id":35508,"date":"2022-04-11T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35508"},"modified":"2024-11-08T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:33:19","slug":"police-records-on-airtag-stalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/11\/police-records-on-airtag-stalking\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Records on AirTag Stalking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samantha Cole<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Of the 150 total police reports mentioning AirTags, in 50 cases women called the police because they started getting notifications that their whereabouts were being tracked by an AirTag they didn’t own. Of those, 25 could identify a man in their lives—ex-partners, husbands, bosses—who they strongly suspected planted the AirTags on their cars in order to follow and harass them. Those women reported that current and former intimate partners—the most likely people<\/a> to harm women overall—are using AirTags to stalk and harass them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Bruce Schneier<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Eight police departments over eight months yielded fifty cases. And that’s only where the victim (1) realized they were being tracked by someone else’s AirTag, and (2) contacted the police. That’s going to multiply out to a lot<\/i> of AirTag stalking in the country, and the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I don’t know what to make of these numbers. No doubt there are lots of cases not involving AirTag. And we don’t know how many stalkers were using AirTag but not detected. Does these cases being linked to AirTag mean that the notification feature is working, at least to an extent? Can we extrapolate how many unreported Android victims there might be, given that (presumably) few Android users are regularly running the Tracker Detect app?<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n