Nader discovered that somebody had slipped an Apple AirTag into her coat pocket while she was sitting in a restaurant earlier. A 30 December report from the New York Times cites seven women who believe AirTags were used to surveil them. However, law enforcement responses to incidences of AirTag stalking have thus far been inconsistent, and help is not always guaranteed. “I was having a mini panic attack, just really scared,” she says in the post that has now been viewed more than 5.5m times. There are thousands of different stalkerware variants, such as Cerberus, GPS tracking devices and Tile, a Bluetooth-enabled AirTag competitor that announced a partnership with Amazon last spring.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2022 17:05 UTC