AirPods and AirTags have been used to stalk women – so what's being done about it?

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AirPods and AirTags have been used to stalk women – so what's being done about it?
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'Every man I saw, I wondered, ‘Is it him? Is he following me?' ➡️

What happened to Natalie isn’t an isolated incident or an anomaly. It has happened to several

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which runs the National Stalking Helpline and is the UK’s leading personal safety charity, says the number of stalking cases involving AirPods and AirTags is on the rise. "We’ve had quite a few reports of AirTags being used to track victims, often as young as school age. And the use of AirPods to track people is also a rising trend that we’ve seen through the victims that we support,” says Tallulah Belassie-Page, a Policy and Campaigns Officer at the trust.

While 95% of stalking cases never get anywhere near a courtroom, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust says that stalking is still definitely on the rise. In 2021 there were 1.5 million reported stalking cases. That figure went up to 1.8 million in 2022. But what about tech-enabled stalking specifically?

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