Two women filed a class action lawsuit against the company after their former partners used the devices to track down their location.
A pair of women have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple after they claim their exes used the company’s quarter-sized AirTag trackers to stalk them. The lawsuit, viewed by Gizmodo, claims Apple’s alleged missteps around privacy considerations with AirTags amounts to negligence and violates California’s constitutional right to privacy. AirTags, according to the suit, are an “unreasonably dangerous product,” that grants stalkers a tool to track their victims’ locations.
One of the women listed in the suit claims her ex-boyfriend followed her after hiding the AirTag in the wheel of her car. The other claims her estranged husband placed one of the trackers in her child’s backpack and used it to monitor her whereabouts. The former says she felt forced to move into a hotel following repeated harassment from her ex. One day, when driving from her apartment to the hotel she says she received a strange notification from her iPhone alerting her that an unknown AirTag was in her vicinity. The woman eventually found the AirTag lodged in the wheel of her car, colored with a marker and tied up in a bag. Later, the woman says she spotted a strange man lurking nearby who she believes was sent to find and snatch the device.
These womens’ first hand accounts are just the latest in a growing number of stalker stories tied to AirTags, some of which have even reportedly ended in murders.
