The Wiretap: Apple AirPods Location Tracking Helps Cops Chase Suspected Government Property Thieves

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The Wiretap: Apple AirPods Location Tracking Helps Cops Chase Suspected Government Property Thieves
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Apple AirPods have a location tracking feature that helped Washington police hunt down alleged thieves.

Apple AirPods have a location tracking feature that appears to have helped park rangers in Washington State. newsletter, which every Tuesday brings exclusives and other news about surveillance, privacy and cybercrime, straight to your inbox.Between November 2022 and May this year, thieves broke into a number of vehicles and government buildings in Olympic National Park, Washington.

But a week later, the AirPods owner informed the cops that the headphones had moved to a street in Port Angeles, Washington. It was another match: the suspects previously told officers they were planning to store some of their camping equipment at an address on that street after leaving the park. monitoring the movements of suspects. With many tech manufacturers making GPS-enabled products, all can now expect their tools to be put to use by cops looking into bigger cases than a missing pair of headphones.The DHS says 89,000 pages of Facebook data on a 66-year-old user show he heavily relied on the social network to target vulnerable women for enforced domestic servitude, theft, babysitting and sex work.

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