A car won’t care. And five days are more than enough to find out someone’s place of residence. Sure, the AirTag will work a year, but it won’t accumulate data and report it later. Nor will people likely be unaware of it for much longer, since it will beep after after a while.
There are scenarios where this doesn’t apply, of course, but the main damage as in exposing the place of living will probably happen within 24, if not 12 hours, after being attacked.
For domestic abusers, it’s different. Those were easiest scenario where one would circumvent the self-revealing feature due to the victim returning home and the AirTag getting marked as “ok, that’s okay”, so it wouldn’t reveal itself. But Apple addressed this by shortening the time to report. Also, I can’t say that I have tested this extensively, but I never get good intel on our car’s location when my wife arrived at her place of work. My working hypothesis is that iOS devices that travel with a suspect AirTag (which ours is, to my wife’s iPad) won’t update their position.
Anyway, a domestic abuser usually has access to their victims tech and can already install all kinds of surveillance apps.
I wonder if there is a term for this? I mean, there’s physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse … smart abuse? Surveillance abuse?
