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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.
Yeah. Go ahead and start abusing when you have nothing meaningful to argue with. And like all such unimaginative abusers, you always get it wrong.
You can't bill it as imaginary just because you don't like it. Cases of stalking and spying using airtags are all over the news. And asking for people's privacy to be respected isn't anti-tech. You're just so full of strawman arguments and nothing more.
And it's rich for you to accuse me of bad faith when all you do to support your arguments are personal attacks.