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Now at @ekoparty, researcher @Netxing presenting on the misuse of apple airtags with project Amini. #EKO2022 #privacy #vigilancia
Apple airtags are small, low cost, and have three different technologies that allow for very precise location tracking. #EKO2022
Unfortunately #airtags are used for tracking people without their consent; mostly to track women. They can fit in many places, specially fitting well under vehicles.
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Here is why I am short the idea that $AAPL is going to launch and/or do anything meaningful in the world of AR (the glass) in the near future.

There is a great app for AR - let me hold my phone up and show me where my #Airtag is in 3D space - ya it doesn't exist.
I shit on the idea of #Airtags for years as they were a hyped thing, then $APPL shipped them and they turned out ok - so I should be careful.

But I have see the media/analyst community confidently predict products for years and they never ship.
When I got my first Jawbone for my BB Curve I thought, man it would be great if I could listen to music on this from my iPod.

Airpods were an obvious killer app - they solved a problem people had, and they did it well.
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Apple's #Airtags are an ingenious technology: they fuse every Ios device into a sensor grid that logs the location of each tag, using clever cryptography to prevent anyone but the tag's owner from pulling that information out of the system. 1/ A product shot of Apple's Airtag; superimosed on it in meme-
If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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But there are significant problems with Airtags' privacy model. Some of these are unique to Apple, others are shared by all Bluetooth location systems, including Covid exposure-notification apps and Airtag rivals like Tile. 3/
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What connects @Apple #Airtags, @ethereum (#Ethereum) naming service (#ENS) and identity using #NFTs?

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1/ The law of unintended consequences, specifically unintended tracking.

Read on for the parallels and contrasts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintende…
2/ Whilst #airtags were designed to track "things" they certainly weren't designed to stalk people as they are.
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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🧵 THREAD: on Apple #AirTags Announcement at #AppleEvent 🧵

Apple AirTags are the latest example of technology ripped off from a competitor after years of harmful and monopolistic tactics.
1: .@TheTileApp pioneered this category to solve a universal consumer problem, but Apple used its monopoly power to tip the scales in its own favor - depriving customers of choice and innovation.
2: From burying user permissions to locking Tile out of crucial data and technologies, @Apple has used its platform advantage to pave the way for its own products.
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Tercera llamada, tercera. ¡Comenzamos! bit.ly/3grzPkO #AppleEvent
Apple Card permitirá unificar tus tarjetas de crédito. ¡Incluso tendrá un filtro familiar llamado Apple Card Family! ¿Qué tal? #AppleEvent
Un nuevo color de #iPhone llega a la familia #AppleEvent
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