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747 Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say

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Kim Zetter @ Wired · 09/29/2025 05:30 EDT

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say

A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

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