When an editor proposed sending a photographer to surreptitiously follow him in person one day - to show visually the movements I was tracking digitally - a small part of me worried I might discover something I didn’t want to know. But my husband does occasionally leave the house, and I wanted to track him when he did. On top of a pandemic, it’s winter here in the Northeast, so we’re home most of the time. We see practically no one but each other or my in-laws. Our lives are certainly less exciting these days. (He would not give them up himself, saying, “I have a job,” but he agreed to unplug our Amazon Echo.) He also happens to be a professional press freedom advocate, so I was fairly certain he’d be game. My husband has lived on Bitcoin with me, been spied on by our “smart home,” and watched me give up the tech giants. All these people received warnings on their iPhones, a feature Apple had built into the AirTag system to help prevent unwanted tracking. A Sports Illustrated model, Brooks Nader, said she found one in her coat pocket after visiting a Manhattan bar. They were scared about being stalked or followed by someone wanting to steal their vehicles. Given the company’s history of introducing products - such as the original iPhone - that lead to mass adoption, AirTags could well lead consumers to location track everything all the time, so that nothing is ever lost again, ushering in a surveillance state with the cleanest of aesthetics.īut every new convenience comes with a price: In recent months, people have freaked out after finding AirTags hidden in their bags and on their cars. It was for journalism.Īpple released chic, sleek AirTags early last year as a way to keep track of keys and purses.

I realize I sound like the worst wife ever, so let me explain. I put a quarter-sized Apple AirTag in a seat pocket a flat, credit card-shaped Bluetooth tracker made by Tile in a dashboard pocket and a hockey-puck-like GPS tracker from a company called LandAirSea in the glove compartment. Instead, I turned to the location-monitoring devices that I had secretly stashed in our car a week earlier.

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