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pulseimages said:

Helicopter Parenting at its worse! 

Most people live in suburbs where the child is naturally incarcerated because it is dependent on the parents driving everywhere (terrible). But when you live in a big city and you allow your 10-year old the freedom to use the tube on her own, you still may want to be able to know where she is. 

We live in a really big city with good public transport, it has therefore been easy for our daughter to go anywhere anytime since she was very small. We use Location Sharing among all the family. First, we wanted to be able to check our daughter; at the beginning in case she got lost or went places she shouldn't, now to be able to get to her in case something untoward hapens. In order for her not to feel singled out for surveillance, we enabled Location Sharing on all our phones: she can see us, we can see her and each other. One never knows. And it is convenient for timing cooking, meeting in the city, making sure the other person arrived at the destination ok, and so on.
Also, rather than using it to spy on the significant other, I look at it the other way round: by offering to share my location I give my family comfort that I am not in inappropriate places. I have nothing to hide. But I would not like it if she INSISTED on tracking me, and if she requested we all turn it off, I would be OK with that.

I thought the AirTags beep when separated from
their owner and on the move? 

lairdpopkin said:

It's hard to say how or why the tag got into their bag. It could have just come loose from another bag and fallen into their bag.

And there was no reason for them to cut their vacation short - that seems needlessly paranoid. The tag did its job and beeped because it wasn't near its owner, and they found the tag and could simply throw it away and the owner of the tag would have no idea where they went after that. 

And if they wanted to see whose tag it was, they could scan it using NFC, which is built into most modern iPhones and Android phones, and it'll give you a link to see the owner's info so they could contact them, etc. https://www.applegazette.com/news/how-to-use-airtag-with-android/

So an AirTag beeps when moving on its own. Does that mean if I drop an AirTag into my hold luggage it will beep the entire flight and while it is being moved around the airport?

Madbum said:

beowulfschmidt said:

indiekiduk said:

if it was beeping it has been put in lost mode which means someone lost it some how

I thought they would start beeping all on their own after a certain amount of time?  Was that changed?

Regardless, I'm skeptical that someone "lost" an AirTag in someone else's backpack.

You should be skeptical of these liars and attention whores . air pods are not made in Indonesia . 

Case closed 

a) these were AirTags not AirPods
b) the battery says “made in Indonesia.    Idiots? Probably. But attention seeking? Probably not.