{"id":158342,"date":"2023-02-17T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/tile-adds-undetectable-anti-theft-mode-to-tracking-devices-with-1-million-fine-if-used-for-stalking"},"modified":"2023-02-17T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:26:03","slug":"tile-adds-undetectable-anti-theft-mode-to-tracking-devices-with-1-million-fine-if-used-for-stalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/tile-adds-undetectable-anti-theft-mode-to-tracking-devices-with-1-million-fine-if-used-for-stalking","title":{"rendered":"Tile Adds Undetectable Anti-Theft Mode to Tracking Devices, With $1 Million Fine If Used for Stalking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tile-adds-undetectable-anti-theft-mode-to-tracking-devices-with-1-million-fine-if-used-for-stalking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AirTag competitor Tile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/tile-takes-aim-at-bluetooth-tracker-industrys-theft-and-stalking-measures-with-launch-of-anti-theft-mode-301748350.html\">today announced<\/a> a new Anti-Theft Mode for Tile tracking devices, which is designed to make Tile accessories undetectable by the anti-stalking Scan and Secure feature.<\/p>\n<p>Scan and Secure is a security measure that Tile implemented in order to allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/iphone\/\">iPhone<\/a> and Android users to scan for and detect nearby Tile devices to keep them from being used for stalking purposes. Unfortunately, Scan and Secure undermines the anti-theft capabilities of the Tile because a stolen device\u2019s Tile can be located and removed, something also possible with similar security features added for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/airtags\/\">AirTags<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirTag competitor Tile today announced a new Anti-Theft Mode for Tile tracking devices, which is designed to make Tile accessories undetectable by the anti-stalking Scan and Secure feature. Scan and Secure is a security measure that Tile implemented in order to allow iPhone and Android users to scan for and detect nearby Tile devices to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}