We've all been there, accused,
and in April Apple came up with a solution
to tracking down your missing keys,
wallet, or purse with the Air TAC,
but with the solution to one problem
came the advent of another.
Tracker on my car and
I was following me.
It's somewhere within my car.
Somebody has put it in my
car so whoever they are,
they've been tracking this.
It's like web.
People in Atlanta,
Gwinnett County and Cobb County
reporting there being tracked.
Are we safe like?
Are we gonna be safe?
That's a question Claudia still
doesn't know how to answer,
which is why she asked.
We blur her face and not
reveal her real name.
Early last month she received
this notification on her phone.
Items detected with you,
it said unknown accessory last
seen with me November 28th at
4:00 PM I could see. On the map,
in the find my app that I had tracked
or followed me posts about unknown
air trackers on peoples property
are flooding social media.
What was your reaction when you found
there was an air tag attached to your car?
I started freaking out Leoda
listen lives in Lubbock, TX.
Different state, same notification.
The message specifically said this
artag was seen traveling with you.
A Body Shop found an air tag.
It's literally right here hidden.
Underneath her car and the map
had me going as you could see,
there was like a long red line going
to idalou and then coming back.
And that was me dropping off my children
so she did what Apple tells people to do.
If they find a suspicious
artag she called the police,
but the technology is so new we discovered
it's taking police by surprise.
As you can see in this Atlanta police
body Cam footage from two separate cases,
this is my first instance
of running into something like this.
It's literally been like tracking her car.
Apparently it it can detect
it for whatever reason.
Yeah, how does your phone pick it up?
And the problem is growing.
We uncovered eight police
reports in our area, most
within the last month, 'cause I really
don't have a solution. Do you think?
Police are caught up with technology,
not at all. It's outpacing police, and this,
outpacing outpacing the laws. Private
investigator Eric Echols says, not only
is it scary, someone can track you.
It's also completely legal in Georgia.
Any person can put a GPS device
with any person's vehicle,
as long as that vehicles in the
public setting and you cannot
put it inside the vehicle.
It has to be on the outside the vehicle,
and at only $29 each.
It is easily accessible to
just about anyone. Technology
has surpassed the law.
You have to change the law from back.
150 years ago 2.
Coincide with technology today?
If not, you're going to continue to
have problems and what kind of problems
do you foresee coming from this?
Well, I I foresee there will be some
liability where someone is going
to be injured and the cause of it
is is going to be because this tag
was used to track this individual.
Find this individual,
it's just a matter of time.
I just
didn't think that it was
going to happen to me.
The reality is it could happen to anyone,
so here's what you need to
know if it happens to you.
First, if you get this notification while
you're driving, Eckel says do not go home.
You don't want anybody who's potentially
tracking you to know where you live.
Instead, pull over somewhere
public or go to a police station.
Second, if you have an iPhone,
it should give you an option
to play a sound like this,
which tells you where the tag is.
If you don't have an iPhone,
Apple says an air tag will automatically
play the noise once it's separated
from its owner to disable it.
You can simply twist the
top and remove the battery.