Nashville, Tennessee: A man was arrested after police found he had attached an Apple Watch to his girlfriend's car to track her whereabouts, WSMV news reported.
The victim had sought protection at the Family Safety Center in Nashville after her boyfriend had threatened to kill her multiple times.
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Lawrence Welch, 29, was arrested and charged by police for attaching the electronic tracking device to his partner's car on Friday, which, according to the arrest affidavit, they found on a wheel of the vehicle after being called by security at a local Family Safety Center.
When police arrived at the Family Safety Center, they noticed that Mr. Welch, instead of standing outside waiting for his girlfriend, was in the back of her car and appeared to be inspecting something near the steering wheel. That's when they discovered his Apple Watch, a device on which Mr. Welch had installed the location-based app Life36 and synced it with his own phone to track his girlfriend.
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The victim told police that the couple had previously used the app, but from what she knows it was only installed on her phone and she always deactivated it before going to the Family Safety Center to seek their help.
WSMV reported that, according to court records, the 29-year-old man already faces two separate charges of domestic assault from incidents that occurred in July 2021, which led to an arrest last December.
Apple was recently forced to beef up its security around a separate piece of technology, the tracking device aptly named AirTag.
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After its release, the tracking device began to be used by stalkers and thieves, prompting the company to issue a security update that included two anti-stalking features.
Source of information: independent.co.uk
