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Re:Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by by jen20 on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:03AM (#30640748)
A relative with Alzheimer’s can reliably find their possessions from their watch despite no longer having the mental faculty to remember where they are.

Perhaps they provide no value to the “average” person (as if that is a thing), but they are invaluable to many.

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Re:Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by by southerntofu on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:57AM (#30788641)
Assistive technology is a good point! But we don't need a global user-tracking/battery-draining mesh network for that!

Just make a tag to place on the back of your phone that reflects a signal, and have a "remote" that when you press the button sends a signal and tries to catch reflection, beeping at a certain volume depending on signal strength.

It's just like those "speech to text" machine learning programs. It's fantastic value for people who can't write, but applied to everyone it has overall very dangerous and damaging consequences.

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