Police in Burlington, Vt. say its residents are finding hidden AirTags and other GPS tracking devices on vehicles returning from Montreal.
The Burlington Police Department said last week that it had received two separate reports in the past month from residents who discovered the devices on their vehicles.
The force says the technology is allegedly being placed there by criminals, and is asking anyone who notices a suspicious device on their vehicle to call police.
The warning comes as police forces across Canada are battling rising levels of auto theft, with criminals using increasingly quick and sophisticated methods to track and steal desirable vehicles.
Doesn’t Android have that as a default now?
https://support.google.com/android/answer/13658562
Interesting. I have a Pixel and it’s not in my settings as described. I’m running GrapheneOS, but I find it odd to omit such a useful privacy feature.
Edit: The feature is part of Google Play Services, not Android.
Yeah, I’m currently running lineage with GApps. Had some problems getting everything to run without them, and the priority, for now, was a working phone.
I feel like AOSP has been getting less love than Google’s proprietary stuff recently, more so than it used to. I don’t really see a logical reason to not have this in AOSP.
Yes. I’ve been notified about airtags traveling with me (one of the people I was with had one) and I never turned anything on or installed any special apps.