Google-Apple team up to prevent abuse of Estags

Google and Apple are each other's arch rival companies, but whenever there is a question of mutual interest, these two companies are also ready to join hands with each other. Both companies worked together for contact tracing with the help of smartphones during Corona. This time, these rivals have shown their willingness to work together to combat the misuse of ' Airtags ' . You may know that Apple company has developed a product called ' AirTag ' and related services. Button-sized airtags can be attached to our suitcases , important files or car keychains. Then it can be tracked on the map from anywhere. Google is also developing such a service.
While AirTag is a very useful item , it is also misused in different ways. Airtags are affixed on luxurious cars in foreign countries so that the car owner does not notice , then if the car is found to be parked in a shady place, there have been cases of criminals stealing the car from there!
Often times people are also tried to track their location by attaching airtags to their belongings without their knowledge. To combat such misuse of AirTags and all other types of Bluetooth location tracking devices, Apple and Google have now jointly developed a common specification for such devices. ' Tile ' company , which makes similar devices like Samsung and Airtag, has also supported in this work. Because of this, soon , if we are being tracked by a device like Airtag without our knowledge, our phone will give us an alert!
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