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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by BoorishBears on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:51PM (#26884886)
Seeing as you can literally give someone a USB cable that tracks them, I don't think AirTags are enabling anything particularly new: https://www.walmart.com/ip/OURLEEME-Car-GPS-Tracker-Vehicle-...
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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by kelnos on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:59AM (#26885896)
That USB cable doesn't work unless it's plugged into something that has power.
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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by BoorishBears on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:41AM (#26890265)
Yes? Offer someone a USB cable and you've given them a GPS tracker that will show their home location

But of course as I linked in another comment, trackers have been fit into anything and everything now. Hairbrushes, random trinkets like clocks, even a phone charging brick itself

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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by nielsbot on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:07AM (#26885625)
Maybe so, but consider the optics...
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