{"id":1527,"date":"2021-05-17T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/how-apples-airtag-turns-us-into-unwitting-spies-in-a-vast-surveillance-network\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T23:58:09","slug":"how-apples-airtag-turns-us-into-unwitting-spies-in-a-vast-surveillance-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/how-apples-airtag-turns-us-into-unwitting-spies-in-a-vast-surveillance-network\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple\u2019s AirTag turns us into unwitting spies in a vast surveillance network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tech giant says it has security safeguards in place. But these tracking devices can be hacked and put to other nefarious purposes<\/p>\n<p>Apple has launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant\u2019s privacy credentials.<\/p>\n<p>But iOS 14.5 also introduced support for the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/20\/apple-launches-new-imac-and-ipad-pro\">Apple AirTag<\/a>, which risks doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/17\/how-apples-airtag-turns-us-into-unwitting-spies-in-a-vast-surveillance-network\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/acf66cada09365b332597d28215f265823fff9ea\/0_88_3540_2125\/master\/3540.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=38dff3b23b28e4da2c17f2fedf9d4fc4\" title=\"How Apple\u2019s AirTag turns us into unwitting spies in a vast surveillance network\" \/>The tech giant says it has security safeguards in place. But these tracking devices can be hacked and put to other nefarious purposes<br \/>\nApple has launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant\u2019s privacy credentials.<br \/>\nBut iOS 14.5 also introduced support for the new Apple AirTag, which risks doing the opposite. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech giant says it has security safeguards in place. But these tracking devices can be hacked and put to other nefarious purposes Apple has launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant\u2019s privacy credentials. But iOS 14.5 also introduced support &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/how-apples-airtag-turns-us-into-unwitting-spies-in-a-vast-surveillance-network\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Apple\u2019s AirTag turns us into unwitting spies in a vast surveillance network<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}