2023-08-11 11:02:58
Many alerts have emerged on social networks about this Apple tracker, sometimes hidden to spy. Here’s how to spot it.
Barely larger than a two-euro coin, Apple’s AirTags are very practical little tracers to avoid losing your belongings. But, they are now also used in a more insidious way, slipped into women’s handbags to better spy on them.
If this practice is not new, it is more and more widespread and Apple has already put safeguards in place to identify unwanted objects more easily. Except that it only worked on smartphones from the apple brand.
Announced in recent months, the scanning of AirTags via an Android smartphone is now a reality. Here’s how to spot a tracer if you’re in any doubt.
Go to the phone settingsClick on “Security and emergencies”Then on “Unknown tracer alerts”Check that automatic authorization is activated then click on “Search” to launch a manual scanHere is how to do a manual search – BFMTV
As a reminder, according to l’article 226-1 of the penal code, the fact of undermining the intimacy of the private life of others “by means of any process whatsoever” is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros. This therefore includes tracking someone with a beacon without their knowledge.
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