This is painful, but it is worth considering that "outliers" so far have meant 1 person dead from an AirTag, as well as a few dozen stalking incidents.
I believe anti-stalking features should be added, but there needs to be balance and also perspective on the safety of things. It's easy to focus on those people who were injured, forgetting the perspective that in general, these trackers are very safe.
- How many people are killed from cars every year? Drunk driving?
- 1,000 children are injured in California alone every year from pencils. Some have died. As I've said elsewhere, you are more likely to die from a pencil than a shark.
- Over 1 million people land in the Emergency Room every year for a stair-related accident. Over 12,000 die.
- 12 people die from taking selfies every year.
- 450 people die from falling out of bed every year.
- 150 people die every year from having a coconut fall on their head.
- 7,000 people die every year from a doctor's sloppy handwriting on the prescription.
- 2,500 left-handed people die every year from using right-handed tools.
- 29 people die every year from being buried alive by accident.
All of these are things we don't consider dangerous, and would often happily give our children or teenagers. Thus, while anti-stalking features of a kind should be added (an alarm if left alone too long?), we shouldn't dwell on too few people. Many of these issues kill far, far more people and we just can't avoid it - we can't force people to not take selfies, or doctors to always have perfect handwriting, or open every grave every day following for a week. Attempting to mitigate every weird cause of death is not possible and would require totalitarianism.