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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still don’t understand how or why an air tag is used.[/quote]

it's a tracking device, about the size of a quarter.  Most "normal" people use them to keep track of their luggage, handbag - those types of items. But now criminals are using them to track YOU. They put them on your car so they can find out where you live, for example.  And they're small enough that you wouldn't necessarily know you have one on you.[/quote]

What benefit does tracking you give them? They can follow you and discover that you live in a house? And this makes you a better target for crime why?

Why would breaking into the house of someone who they saw at Target be better than breaking into the house of someone they didn't see at Target?[/quote]

New poster. Not Target-specific but a few seconds of searching could have shown you that yes, using Air Tags to track people is becoming a real thing. Stalkers (usually someone you know already like a crazy ex) seem to be more common users, but there are absolutely reports of criminals dropping them into people's stuff and attaching them to people's cars, in order to later steal the cars  track the people to their homes.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1080944193/apple-airtags-theft-stalking-privacy-tech

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/criminals-using-airtags-other-tracking-devices-to-stalk-and-steal

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-airtag-stalking-tracking-criminals-problem-heres-how-stop

Note that everyone from Fox News to NPR has covered this. Mostly it's been found to be done in stalking and car theft. But Air Tags are relatively cheap (and likely, the ones a thief would use are stolen anyway, so...free for the thief to use). So yeah, it would be an easy way to track a person. Do you not understand that they won't pick a [i]random[/i] Target shopper, PP? They'll pick women who look well-off, maybe carrying expensive purses or wearing pricier types of "athleisure" or wearing expensive jewelry (I've seen plenty of women at Target in workout gear with big diamonds on their fingers too). They'll pick women they saw arrive iat Target, or wherever, n a luxury car or expensive SUV. With a Air Tag they can find where the women live, check if the address is in a pricey high-end neighborhood, drive by and check the house out as a potential target.

The fact you think this kind of thing is so very unlikely does mean you're naive. It also means you must not be familiar with the Target the OP and others have mentioned, at Mosaic District. Mosaic draws some well-off people in big-name cars. These women do indeed shop at Target stores. I'm not at all surprised that either scammers or serious thieves would be operating at the one in Mosaic.

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