The One Thing You Shouldn’t Track with Apple AirTags
AirTags are small, coin-sized Bluetooth trackers that allow you to locate items near and far. This functionality is powered by Apple’s network of hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads, and Macs already in the wild, providing unprecedented coverage on a global scale.
While it might be tempting to put an AirTag on
everything, there’s one thing you definitely shouldn’t track—and there are many reasons why that is the case.
AirTags Are Designed to Track Objects
The one thing that AirTags were not designed to track is people. There are naturally quite a few ethical and legal issues involved with tracking someone against their will, but that’s only half of the story.