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Location-tracking devices help users find personal items like their keys, purse, luggage, and more through crowdsourced finding networks. However, they can also be misused for unwanted tracking of individuals. Today Apple and Google jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices for unwanted tracking. The first-of-its-kind specification will allow Bluetooth location-tracking devices to be compatible with unauthorized tr...

Apple en Google werken aan een standaard om tracking te voorkomen door alle soorten Bluetooth-trackers. Het wordt een industriestandaard.

Apple and Google have teamed up to develop a universal detection and alert tech for tracking devices like AirTags that works uniformly across Android and iOS.

Android users will soon be able to tell whether they're being tracked by an Apple AirTag device as Google and Apple have joined forces to combat stalking.

Apple and Google said on Tuesday they were working together to curb unwanted tracking of people by Bluetooth devices such as AirTags used…

In a press release this morning, Apple notes that although location-tracking devices help users find personal items like their keys, purse, luggage, and more through crowdsourced finding networks, they can also be misused for unwanted tracking of individuals.

The companies aim to combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking.

As unwanted location tracking continues to be a problem, Apple and Google are working together on a solution.

The statement, issued on World Press Freedom Day, is signed by human rights organisation, media and tech right groups like Access Now, Amnesty International, Committee To Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch and Internet Freedom Foundation.

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