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Apple AirTag stalking is worse than anyone realized — what you can do

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AirTag stalking could be worse than we thought, but there are things you can do to protect yourself By Tom Pritchard Ever since the launch of Apple's AirTags last year, we’ve been hearing stories about how they’re being used for an unintended purpose: stalking. It's been a particular problem for women, and now it seems it may be even more serious than people realized. So much so that it could be time to take Apple AirTags off the market. That's according to research by Motherboard(opens in new tab), which got hold of reports from eight major police departments, covering a period of eight months. In that time there were 150 reports that mentioned AirTags, 50 of which came from women who had received notifications that a rogue AirTag was tracking them. Half of those 50 women suspected a man in their lives may have been responsible for planting the AirTag — with the goal of following and harassing them. In one case, a woman had called the police because a man had escalated his...