Comment by exabrial
13 hours ago
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.
13 hours ago
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.
This also requires authorities that would care about this sort of case.
Wouldn't even be hard for Apple to implement, they already do this for airlines.
The challenge is how you prevent such features being abused by like stalkers
Whitelisting law enforcement so when the owner of the air tag declares it stolen nobody other than a whitelisted law enforcement org could view its location and when they did that creates an audit log?
^ exactly.
And since the user has the original key, it'd have to be voluntary surrender. After you turn your key in, you lose access.
The best part is the whole thing could be reviewable and added to a public immutable ledger, encrypted, to make the whole process, transition, and access transparent for courts later. Wouldn't it be great if more investigations happened that way?
And if you don't trust law enforcement, thats your prerogative, no need to use the feature.
This implies a level of trust in law enforcement. As a US citizen, hard pass.
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It would be nice if this could tie in to actively altering enforcement when it's turned on, maybe even require sharing with authorities for it to be enabled: the stalker would have to collaborate with police in order to stalk the victim.