You can no longer monitor others with Samsung SmartTag

Shortly after Apple presented its alternative to Samsung’s SmartTag, the Korean company just said in a statement that will not allow your search engine to be used for tracking or monitoring to another person.

His The Bluetooth tracker came from the hand of the Galaxy S21 so that soon a new version was launched, the SmartTag +. This has improved the location thanks to the ultra-wide band and if the goal is for us to locate objects, like the keys to the house, it can also be placed to follow another person.

Samsung prevents SmartTag from being used for stalking

It is not uncommon for technology, like normally everything in life, can be used positively or negatively. In this case, Samsung did not want to waste time avoiding misuse of one of its new accessories.

While it is wonderful technology to find your car keys when they have been lost, it can also be used maliciously to follow others without them knowing it.

Thanks to a upgrade to your SmartThings Find ecosystem, from which you can find out how it works to find your device, fixed the incorrect use of its SmarTag.

It all goes through a new feature called “Search for unknown tags” which allows the user to know if he is carrying a Galaxy SmartTag that does not belong to him when he is on the move. In other words, if you take a SmartTag with you and have no idea, this new feature will let you know.

This update of SmartThings Find applies to the first and second versions of SmartTag. Samsung too added voice tracking in Bixby