In a joint effort to reduce unwanted tracking on iPhone and Android, Apple and Google have teamed up to bring an AirTag-like standard
AirTags are excellent for locating missing or stolen items and can often help distressed car owners in retrieving their stolen vehicles with the help of the police. However, these can also be used as an instrument of unwanted stalking. Realizing that this problem needs to be tackled together, both Apple and Google have submitted an industry specification that will prevent the misuse of such trackers, with alerts eventually being available on both iPhone and Android.Various other companies, such as Samsung, Tile, eufy have shown support for this proposed specification
Apple’s Vice President of Sensing and Connectivity says that while the AirTag can give users some peace that their most valuable items can be tracked using the Find My network, there also needs to be a set of rules in place to discourage unwanted tracking of people.
