Apple's AirTags are can be used for both good and evil purposes. That can be the problem with any new technology. For every potential good use, there are at least several pain-inducing and criminal-pleasing uses. Sometimes, the bad outweighs the good, especially in the public eyes and ears. This time the good prevailed.
Case in point, a young US military spouse has moved around the globe numerous times. She knows the drill. As she told the Military Times, she also knows that moving companies are not universally reliable. It is not just that they can break things or lose things. They may not always deliver the facts in a way that is actually truthful.
This clever wife slid an AirTag into one of her family's moving boxes containing her son's toys. I t was going to be a long distance move from Fort Carson, Colorado to Fort Drum, New York. No reader who has moved numerous times will be surprised to learn that the boxes didn't turn up on time. They were a month late. A promise of a Friday delivery became the promise of a Sunday delivery, etc. The driver finally called the family and told her that he was just picking up her family's boxes in Colorado. Huh? The call did not go well for the driver of the unnamed moving company. She had already checked the location of her AirTag and knew it was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, not far from her new home.[1]
"I made him aware that I knew he was only four hours away from us," she told the Military Times. "He called back several minutes later trying to bargain with me to see if he could deliver it on Sunday or Monday." And, of course, all of her family's boxes did not arrive either. You can now completely understand why she used the AirTag in the way she did. “You read so many stories about lost or missing (household goods) HHG and this is part of the problem,” she said. “Instead of waiting for someone to change something I took matters into my own hands. I hope the word spreads, I hope other military families hear our story and they, too, add AirTags to their HHG (as they call household goods in the military).
Employers do not always trust remote employees, for example, so they use various forms of surveillance technology. Too many humans do not like or trust each other, so they use technology to abuse each other. At the same time, they use technology to stay in touch with each other and work together in ways that were never previously possible.
Maybe moving companies contracted for military family moves will be more honest with their clients, as a $30 item can prove if they are misrepresenting the truth.
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[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/she-didnt-trust-her-movers-a-single-apple-airtag-showed-she-was-right/
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