Montana Brown, who appeared in Love Island, discussed finding an AirTag in her luggage after landing in LA, in California.
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Love Island star Montana Brown was tracked by an an Apple device, without her knowledge, she has claimed. Montana Brown, who appeared in Love Island, discussed finding an AirTag in her luggage after landing in LA, in California.
Montana was in the US to see pals, and discovered the item in her bags when she was landing solo after a flight. The reality TV star says when a notification popped up on her iPhone saying an AirTag was travelling with her.
She told ITV Good Morning Britain: "So as soon as I got through security, I was kind of brushing (it) off at this point: 'Oh, it was probably nothing.' And it was only until I went to the toilet and kind of emptied everything out my bag that it was at the bottom of my bag so that was really alarming because I genuinely had no idea that somebody was even that close to me to be able to put it into my bag."
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Brown added: "I kind of panicked and just flushed it down the toilet because I was in the toilet anyway and I just thought because I was so kind of spooked and I was really surprised that I actually found anything." Brown added: "That's the first time I've been on my own, really, and felt very unsafe and I just wanted to kind of get out of the airport as quickly as possible.
"But it definitely was a shocking experience because you kind of like go down a rabbit hole of: 'What would they then have done next, and what would they have tracked my location for?"' She said: "Absolutely, I still am really baffled how someone managed to literally (get) that close proximity without me noticing."
Apple said the company "condemns any malicious use" of its products and through its work with law enforcement knows "incidents of AirTag misuse are rare". It said: "Unwanted tracking has long been a societal problem, and we took this concern seriously in the design of AirTag.
"It's why the Find My (iCloud) network is built with privacy in mind, uses end-to-end encryption, and why we innovated with the first-ever proactive system to alert you of unwanted tracking. We hope this starts an industry trend for others to also provide these sorts of proactive warnings in their products."
"We will continue to listen to feedback and innovate," the company also said. "We've built a tunable system of deterrents which we are committed to making improvements to over time."