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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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What are you talking about?
Despite the fact that GPS trackers without restrictions literally already existed, are unconditionally legal and legitimate to have, and were readily available to bad actors, they heavily limited the functionality out of the gate to limit the benefit to malicious use cases.
Airtags aren't just GPS trackers. They use the apple devices to ensure coverage. And no, Apple wasn't too enthusiastic about limiting its functionality until it became a PR disaster. Even the solution now is not satisfactory.
They should be extremely useful anti-theft trackers, which unconditionally have every right to exist, and are not remotely dicey legally or ethically in any context. But they completely and utterly butchered their usefulness by making them notify everyone around them for the literal sole purpose of satisfying insane anti-technology nutjobs like you.