Of course it is, you can see her controlling it wirelessly.

Unless you mean “connected to the Internet”, which has nothing to do with the ability to hack it.

It’s pretty much default in Europe. I feel like credit cards mostly gained popularity here because American companies required them.

It’s a tracker like an Apple Airtag, which basically just needs a compatible phone in range (I guess about 10 metres).

Apple made it so any iphone can detect this without any user interaction or setup. If the iphone detects a nearby tracker, it will just send the location to the user the tracker is registered to.

I don’t use an iphone, but I’m fairly sure that’s how it works. Not even sure if it can be disabled. Android has similar things, but they usually require an app to be installed.

I can only remember the emergency services number, 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

It’s the media cycle.

They basically see “warehouse on fire” getting a lot of views, so they start reporting on other fires too, disregarding the actual cause of the fire".

Same happens with other stuff too. Statistically this isn’t occuring more than normally, but because one occurrence got a lot of views, we see it reported more.