r/BrandNewSentence • u/Sebastianlim • 19h ago

"Women are being advised to play copyrighted Disney music when they spot men secretly recording them with Meta glasses."

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u/bs000 14h ago edited 14h ago

Everybody was really worked up about being stalked with AirTags for a hot minute, and everyone just forgot all of a sudden. Like the guy committed to stalking you is going to use something that beeps loudly and sends notifications directly to your phone when it's been near you long enough, and has all your identifying information that Apple can hand over to police. Instead of just buying a device actually used for tracking people for less money on aliexpress.

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u/licoricenipple 11h ago edited 11h ago

AirTags originally only beeped or notified you of proximity after 3 days, and there were recorded cases of stalkers putting them on their victims' cars and swapping them out every few nights to avoid it. They shortened it to randomized sub-day intervals because of all the people worked up about stalking.

The pre-existing tracking devices you're talking about were considered riskier because they required an active SIM card and data plan for real-time tracking, and in many countries it's hard to sign up for a data plan without identifying information. AirTags worked without a data plan and only required an Apple account which you could create anonymously. The other type, which don't require a data plan but only record GPS information to internal storage, were a lot less popular for stalkers because they didn't offer real-time tracking, only history.

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u/Im_Unsure_For_Sure 11h ago

People still stopped complaining. The product still enables stalking.

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u/im_thatoneguy 11h ago

And then made AirTags useless for catching stolen luggage etc.