Hacker News Reader

HN is a microcosm of the world. People support whatever is the norm, because they are social beings. Being privacy focused is "idealist" or "extremist" or "paranoid", and people don't want to be outcasts. And you are a conspiracy theorist for thinking that Apple and Google don't have your best interests at heart. And abuse of Hanlon's razor, etc, etc

View on HN

Actually, it's more that many of us frequently risk the likely theft of our precious items, the permanent loss of which would be extremely damaging or upending. And the contrived examples of abuse cases are much less compelling, especially when the only alternative, cellular GPS trackers, are even more invasive. And I dare someone to formulate an ethically consistent argument for banning GPS tracking devices.

Reading the comments outside of the article I see no other example where it helped catch a thief but I find one case of possible abuse to track soomeone.

Annecdotic I know, but I guess some of us value the potential abuse of others higher than an hypothetic recovery in case of theft.

I’ll let you know the outcome when someone jacks my custom $7000 bike from its truck bed rack for the second time.

Did you forget about the article?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com