Apple and Google join forces to stop unwanted tracking

Apple and Google have announced an industry specification for Bluetooth tracking devices which help alert users to unwanted tracking.

The specification, called Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers, will make it possible to alert users across both iOS and Android if a device is unknowingly being used to track them.

The alert would be pushed to the users device and would say “[Item] Found Moving With You.”

In many cases “[Item]” might well actually be an AirTag.

AirTags’ intended use is …

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