{
  "id": 14982036,
  "title": "AirTag Silencer product pulled after backlash and stalking fears",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/airtag-silencer-product-pulled-after-backlash-and-stalking-fears",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-16T15:04:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/tech/airtag-silencer-elevation-lab-apology"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Apple's AirTag features a speaker that emits a sound when the device is away from its owner. A company called Elevation Lab attempted to create a product, the AirTag Silencer, to disable this speaker, but quickly faced backlash and concerns about stalking. Apple learned from its previous experience with the original AirTag, which stalker groups quickly discovered could be used to track victims. Elevation Lab sent out an email alerting users to the pull of their product and posted an apology on their website. The AirTag Silencer was designed for owners who wished to silence the speaker on AirTags they used for bicycles, but it could also potentially aid stalkers by preventing the sound that alerts victims to unwanted tracking. Apple had previously introduced various anti-stalking tools for AirTags and collaborated with Google to alert Android users if they were being tracked by an AirTag. After facing criticism from media outlets like MacRumors and a tech journalist's scathing blog post, the AirTag Silencer was withdrawn from sale.",
  "summary": "Elevation Lab started selling a device that silences AirTags and had to pull it from sale for very obvious reasons.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}