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. The suit was originally filed with a California court last December and the amended complaint accuses Apple of allowing the tracking product to become"one of the most dangerous and frightening technologies employed by stalkers" since they can be used to generate"real-time location information to track victims."The number of AirTag stalking cases has risen sharply and the plaintiffs say that Apple has not done enough to stop AirTag trackers from stalking people.
As an example of the seriousness of this situation, one woman from Indiana, LaPrecia Sanders, is a plaintiff in the class-action suit. Her son was killed by his ex-girlfriend who allegedly used an AirTag to track his movements and"followed him to a bar and ran him over with her car, killing him at the scene."
AirTag units have been hidden in the linings of purses, and have even been stitched inside a child's stuffed teddy bear. Some of the stalkers are known to the target such as an ex-partner or spouse. Other victims are picked at random to be stalked by someone unknown to the victim. Corbin Streett, a technology specialist for the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said that Apple seemed to focus on the latter scenario and not the former when considering the risks of its AirTag tracker.
The stalking victims suing Apple say that Apple knew that the AirTag tracker could be used by stalkers but went ahead and advertised them as being"stalker-proof." But when Apple's claim turned out to be false, the company had to"address its failures in protecting people from unwanted, dangerous tracking," according to the complaint.
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