"It's scary for a lot of women especially"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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AirTags are meant to help you find missing items, but some people are using them to track others without their knowledge. WXIA Reporter Kristin Crowley tells us what she's learned about the devices. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.7	It's an unknown accessory last seen with me in November 28 at 4 p.m.
0:08.9	I could see on the map and to find my app that it had tracked or followed me.
0:14.2	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.
0:16.1	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:20.9	This is my first instance of running into something like this.
0:25.0	It's literally been like tracking her car.
0:27.3	Apparently it can detect it for whatever reason.
0:30.9	Do you think police are caught up with technology?
0:35.1	Not at all.
0:36.0	It's outpacing police and it's outpacing the laws.
0:39.6	Technology has surpassed the law.
0:41.8	There's a device that some of us are using these days designed to keep track of our stuff.
0:46.5	But for some folks, it's been a real concern.
0:50.5	I'm joined by Kristen Crowley, investigative reporter at 11 Alive, WXIA in Atlanta, Georgia. Kristen,
0:55.3	thanks for being here once again. Hey, sure thing. Thanks for having me. Yeah. And so let's talk about this.
1:00.3	Let's talk about the air tag is what it's called, right? Yes, the Apple air tag, the device that came out in
1:07.0	April of this year kind of slid under the radar, I feel like, for a lot of people.
1:11.3	I don't think a lot of people even knew it existed.
1:13.7	And it's a tracking device meant to be for things like you're missing wallet, keys, purse,
1:20.2	anything that we tend to lose.
1:23.0	But as we found out, it's being used for much more than that, not in the way that it was
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