How Apple’s AirTag turns us into unwitting spies in a vast surveillance network
by Paul Haskell-Dowland for the Conversation from Technology | The Guardian on (#5HWZN)
The tech giant says it has security safeguards in place. But these tracking devices can be hacked and put to other nefarious purposes
Apple has launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant's privacy credentials.
But iOS 14.5 also introduced support for the new Apple AirTag, which risks doing the opposite.
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