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Rather than ban the device, punish the behavior. Apple has made it quite easy for anyone with an Apple device to notice if they are being tracked. Why punish someone tracking their scooter as if they were tracking some "daughter"?

GPS tracking of cars is legal in many place. Those devices don't report their existence to the owner. Perhaps we should start there?

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That didn't seem to work well for guns in the US.

Besides, this tech is opening a tracking pandora box with social and political consequences that we can't predict.

I'm for banning without a licence on this one.

I think banning objects goes about as well as banning drugs did.

The technology itself is unstoppable.

At most widespread use of it could be delayed until something smaller and even harder to detect is invented.

The technology of guns has been very well stopped for common use in France. Just just have to have a licence to own one, with a training, etc.

Most people don't own a gun.

I never heard, unlike in the valley where colleagues told me exactly that, that you have to be careful to not road rage because you don't know if the other guy is not an idiot packing.

AirTags are not addictive and are not helping people in social situation or to have sex.

What stoppedyou from buying a GPS tracker before?

AirTags are cheaper and more powerful than GPS tracker. Also more known, and don't have a stigma.

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