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I've heard of multiple people using airtags to prevent and successfully recover stolen vehicles and property after armed carjackings, and as dystopian as that f
by kyledrake 5y ago
I've heard of multiple people using airtags to prevent and successfully recover stolen vehicles and property after armed carjackings, and as dystopian as that feels, it seems to me far less invasive to society to narrowly target violent criminals than hiring more beat cops to randomly pull over (disproportionately innocent and disenfranchised) people over miniscule driving infractions to hunt for the actual criminals.
I'm happy to see some actual numbers but it seems the devices have been used far more often to deter actual, serious crime than to cause it. Perhaps they should focus on improving the product for what it's actually good for and not nerf it's core functionality because of the extreme edge case of a few bad actors.
Samsung has a similar product called SmartTag and it's also quite good from what I've seen, and on cursory glance seems to not be hyper focused on "fixing" this "problem".
- camillomiller 5y agoThat’s not how the media narrative works unfortunately. Source: I’m in media.
- hedora 5y agoYeah; I’d prefer it if the police could nerf it (by enabling notifications) to help out stalking victims, but thieves could not. Alternatively, if (with an actual warrant, and involvement of the airtag owner) the police could link location trajectories of any phones that travelled with the stolen airtag, that’d be nice. Not sure how to avoid abuse with that scheme.