I have to be the voice of unpopular opinion here, and say that the reasoning behind the sentiment "It's only a tool. The tool can be used in a bad way, but that

I have to be the voice of unpopular opinion here, and say that the reasoning behind the sentiment "It's only a tool. The tool can be used in a bad way, but that doesn't make the tool a bad thing", glosses over some nuance which would otherwise make it suspect reasoning. A hammer is a tool. You can use a hammer to kill somebody so effectively, that you could argue to an alien who knows nothing of hammers, that they're actually murder weapons. That doesn't make hammers inherently bad. An Airtag is also a tool, but it is different in an important way for this comparison; it works by using the internet, thereby providing one degree of separation from the user and the victim. This single degree of separation has an important psychological effect on the user; that of a false sense of security. Some proof of this, is the fact that people continue to use Airtags for stalking, despite the fact that they know they can be caught easily. It's a psychological safety that they allow to trick themselves with, rooted in how we work as human beings; "physical things are real, screens and ephemeral things aren't". So yes, the Airtag is also a tool, but it's likelihood to be used by people (so inclined) for stalking, is higher than somebody using a physical object inappropriately (and illegally).