The New York City Police Department said Monday an Apple AirTag was discovered under the hood of a marked patrol vehicle in Queens.
The small tracking device that connects to Apple’s “Find My” network was found in a police car Sunday in a small plastic bag.
Responding to the discovery, NYPD Chief of Housing Martine Materasso reminded the department to use caution during its inspections of marked cars, given attacks on police occurring across the country. Vehicles are supposed to be inspected before and after officer drives.
“Please maintain a high vigilance state, in light of the anti-police sentiment we have seen not only here, but across the United States,” Materasso wrote in the email to officers, according to the New York Daily News.
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The New York City Police Department said Monday an Apple AirTag was discovered under the hood of a marked patrol vehicle in Queens.
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“Continue to look out for each other and be safe,” Materasso continued.
Apple announced last year that it was working with law enforcement to prevent “unwanted tracking” through the use of AirTags.
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The small tracking device that connects to Apple’s “Find My” network was found in a police car Sunday in a small plastic bag.
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“AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person’s property, and we condemn in the strongest terms any malicious use of our products,” Apple wrote in a statement in February. “Unwanted tracking has long been a societal issue, and we took this concern seriously in the design of AirTag.”
The company said misuses of AirTags are rare, but “every case is one too many.”
Apple announced last year that it was working with law enforcement to prevent “unwanted tracking” through the use of AirTags.
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“Each AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID. Paired account details may be provided by Apple in response to a valid police request or subpoena,” Apple wrote in the statement from him. “We have successfully partnered with them in cases where the information we provide has been used to trace an AirTag back to the perpetrator, who was later apprehended and charged.”
