Apple and Google team up to address unwanted tracking through AirTags

Today Apple and Google jointly unveiled that they’ve teamed up to address the problem of unwanted tracking through dedicated location tracking devices like Apple’s AirTag. These have notoriously been used to track individuals without their knowledge, and it apparently got to a point where the companies finally felt the need to intervene in some way.

That way is submitting a proposed industry specification which will help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location tracking devices for unwanted tracking. This “first-of-its-kind” specification will allow such devices like the AirTag to be…