Apple sued over AirTag stalking; police sued for illegal search based on Find My app

TL;DR

Apple is being sued by two women over AirTag stalking, with the company accused of making it too easy for exes to track their movements.Apple subsequently introduced two rounds of improvements to the anti-stalking features, but even those weren’t enough to prevent them from being abused.Apple Inc. was sued by two women who say its AirTag devices make it easy for stalkers to track and terrorize victims […]An ex-boyfriend of one of the women who filed the lawsuit planted an AirTag in the wheel well of her car and was able to find out where she had moved to avoid his harassment, according to the proposed class-action complaint filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco.In one instance, an ex-boyfriend used the device to track and shoot a woman in Akron, Ohio; in another, a woman in Indianapolis, Indiana, hid an AirTag in her ex-boyfriend’s car, followed him to a bar and ran him over.Much later, she found out about a stolen truck—reportedly with six guns and an iPhone stashed inside—wrongly believed to be parked in her garage based on no evidence other than her home being located within a wide blue circle drawn by a “Find My” iPhone app."

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