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exabrialtoday at 3:08 AM3 repliesview on HN

What airtags need is a theft mode, where anyone carrying the airtag is not alerted, but the location can be retrieved by an approved local authority after being voluntarily surrendered by the owner.


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huhtenbergtoday at 9:51 AM

This also requires authorities that would care about this sort of case.

fartfeaturestoday at 3:22 AM

Wouldn't even be hard for Apple to implement, they already do this for airlines.

JoshTkotoday at 3:17 AM

The challenge is how you prevent such features being abused by like stalkers

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