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TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers | "If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."


"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."

TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner. One of the accounts 404 Media found“If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car—no, it is not an AirTag, it’s a real GPS tracker,” one clip, which has 5 million views, begins. The video shows someone putting a tracker in various hidden locations in a car—a plastic bag in the trunk, magnetically attached underneath, or on the inside of the hood.

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