The District Court of the Northern District of California, United States, received a new lawsuit against Apple. This time it’s two plaintiffs who claim that the company’s Airtags devices were used by their ex-spouses for the purpose of disturbingly tracking them, in real time, while taking advantage of the fact that Apple does not implement auxiliary measures in these devices to prevent people from tracking others.
One of the plaintiffs, who are seeking to turn their lawsuit into a class action, said that a guy she decided to stop dating after three months left things at her door that caused her to move to a hotel for that time, and then she received a message that an unknown AirTag had moved in with her. She eventually found him disguisedly attached to the steering wheel of her car.
The second said that her ex-husband used an AirTag that he put in her child’s bag to track her every move. She found one device, and after a while it turned out there was another.
“With a price tag of only $29, it has become the weapon of choice for harassers and stalkers,” the lawsuit claims against Apple, which, as you remember, launched its first AirTags in April 2021.
Apple has not yet responded directly to the lawsuit, but sources connected to it indicated that already in February the company updated the AirTags so that they would provide an alert to iPhone owners if there is an AirTag in the vicinity that they do not recognize, and that it emphasizes that, “The AirTag is designed to help people locate their personal belongings theirs, not to track other people’s people or property, and we strongly condemn any malicious use of our product.”