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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?

I am not complaining.

What it amounts to, is that the digital world enables so much information gathering and using flexibility, we need fine grain permissions and controls for our devices and services, so they "do the right thing" for all kinds of corner cases.

But we don't have an information infrastructure for that, so the best we can do is balance concerns.




> 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.


Tracking 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.




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