Cops and Courts Don’t Know How to Handle Apple’s AirTag Stalking Problem

CYBER

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Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Apple has democratized stalking for the modern world. With the Airtag you can keep track of your luggage and your estranged spouse.

There’s been an uptick in stalking cases with Apple Airtags at the center and the legal system doesn’t quite know what to do. Often, the cops and the prosecutors don’t even know what an Airtag is. So what do you do when there’s technology at the center of your legal battle, technology that the authorities do not understand.

Today on Cyber, Motherboard Senior Editor Samantha Cole comes on to walk us through it.

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0:00.0	I am now recording.
0:08.2	Tann, it's got the code. It's going to launch.
0:13.0	It's a unit system. I know this.
0:17.3	It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.
0:21.4	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:24.0	The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:27.3	Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.
0:32.1	Apple has democratized stalking for the modern world.
0:35.4	With the air tag, you can keep track of your luggage and you're a estranged spouse. There's been an uptick in stalking for the modern world. With the air tag, you can keep track of your luggage and you're estranged spouse.
0:40.0	There's been an uptick in stalking cases related to Apple air tags, and the legal system
0:44.9	doesn't quite know what to do.
0:47.4	Often, the cops and the prosecutors don't even know what an air tag is.
0:51.7	So what do you do when there's technology at the center of your
0:54.2	legal battle, technology that the authorities do not understand? With me today, to answer some of
1:01.0	these questions is Motherboard's senior editor Samantha Cole. It's the subject of her new piece.
1:05.5	The legal system is completely unprepared for Apple AirTog. Wow. Air tag stalking.
1:12.6	That was a right before Christmas intro read right there, if I've ever heard one, Sam.
1:18.0	Thank you so much for coming on to the show.
1:20.2	Yeah, thank you for having me.
1:23.2	See you as always.
1:25.2	So for people that are listening that may not know, we've talked about it on the show before.
1:29.0	I think it's been almost a year, though.
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