“Clarifications on Tracker Usage: Near-Owner State, Separation State, and Pairing Registry Revealed”

A few clarifications outside the article:
1. The tracker uses a “near-owner” state and a “separated” state. The “near-owner” state is deactivated after the tracker cannot make contact with an owner’s device for a maximum of 30 minutes (also 30 minutes max the other way around). As long as it is able to do so, no signal will be sent that someone is being followed. This prevents the example of you sitting next to someone in the car or that you are at Schiphol and a lot of those things start to buzz.

2. Nowhere in the document is it stated that a tracker should also be able to be turned off remotely, I don’t know where Tweakers got this from. It is true that the device must have a button with which it can be turned off, but at that point the person being followed can also simply throw it in the trash.

3. A tracker will only advertise that it may be tracking people after 24 hours in the “seperated” state. Suppose you use this to find your bag and it has been stolen, then it will take at least 24 hours before it will broadcast to the thief that it is followed.

4. The tracker will have a built-in “pairing registry” in which the serial number will be listed, but also a telephone number and e-mail address. This information can be read by the owner as well as by others, but when read by others only part of the data is visible (For example: tel 06*****678, mail t****@**** l.com). This info must also be retrievable by “law enforcement” (read: police, etc) when necessary (By means of a platform, but not very clear how that would work exactly). This registry is kept for 25 days after “unpairing” and then deleted.

[Reactie gewijzigd door glennoo op 2 mei 2023 21:12]