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> So if someone steals my luggage they can drive around with it until it alerts them and they turn my luggage tracker off? It's a common misconception that Air
by LeoPanthera 2y ago
> So if someone steals my luggage they can drive around with it until it alerts them and they turn my luggage tracker off?
It's a common misconception that Airtags and similar products are designed to help you locate stolen items.
They not. "Tracker on stolen device" and "Tracker planted for the purposes of stalking" are indistinguishable situations.
They're to help you find things that you lost. They're amazing for that. They're sometimes helpful for finding stolen things too, but that is a side-effect.
- Nevermark 2y agoTracking possessions and tracking people are easily distinguishable as tasks. One is highly useful and moral, the other is highly immoral and potentially destructive. But we don’t have an information infrastructure that lets tech understand the difference yet. That was my point. I think I made it clearly.