When I was a kid my dad put one of these on my mom’s car. I found it. About the size of a wallet
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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 22 hours agoMechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested.
Really? I’m almost 50 and this is the first time I’ve ever heard that. Do you have any data to back up that claim?
zzx@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker
I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m fully aware of how to search the internet, how GPS trackers work, and how they are used.
The part I’m skeptical of is that this is something that is disproportionately common for women. That sounds like FUD to me.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I think it’s less that it’s disproportionately effecting women and moreso the bias that women are more likely to notice and report for social reasons. It’s kinda like with folks getting drugged at bars, one of my buddies got drugged and he just went to sleep in his car no police report no nothing.