Re:Apple Introduces AirTag
by duskwuff on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:56PM
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If the "interest" that you're worried about AirTags "working against" is being able to stalk people by attaching trackers to them or their belongings -- sincerely, fuck you. It is entirely appropriate for Apple to build functionality into their products to mitigate this sort of abuse.
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....It’s alerting thieves that the device they stole is being tracked.
That’s anti-user. The user is the one trying to do the tracking.
And not the user of the phone that is reporting the location of those tags to a stalker? Their interests are important too.
Anyways, I don't think there was ever any intent for AirTags to function as an anti-theft tracking device. Anti-theft is much harder to do well than anti-loss (which is what Apple is targeting), and is very difficult to distinguish from stalkerware for a mass-market product.