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How is this is any way an anonymous tracker? The police could get a subpoena for Apple to divulge the iCloud account, credit card, and phone number of the owne

• newaccount74 5y ago
  Huh, right, with all the talk about the privacy preserving location sharing, I missed that Airtags have a serial number that Apple can look up. However, my main criticism (that Apple customers were not asked whether they want to participate in a network that may indirectly reveal their location) still stands.
  • olliej 5y ago
    The find my network is designed so that it does not directly or indirectly reveal location of the primary device or any intermediaries to apple
    • newaccount74 5y ago
      But anytime it sends a ping, it reveals the fact that an iOS device is near. If it's a public place where lots of different people pass by, then that information doesn't identify anyone. But if you place an Airtag at a private location, eg. near someones home, you can use it to detect when the people living there get home. Now maybe you don't worry about side channels like this, but I really think that it should be up to the individual user to decide whether they want to risk something like this or not. It's quite telling that Apple does not ask people to opt-in to the Find My network, while every third party app needs explicit user permission for any kind of Bluetooth access.