Responsible — Pixel Envy

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To paraphrase one of the better lines from a mediocre series, Apple has a public relations problem because it has an actual problem, and it has an actual problem because the world has a problem. Apple has control over perhaps two of those problem strata; it cannot fix the objectification of women in society. But it should not be releasing products that directly exacerbate those known issues.

As much as I’d love these (more so if they added family sharing), they just won’t work in current society. Sure we can debate how much of an actual problem it is, why other tracker don’t get as much flack and so on but it’s just irresponsible to launch these given societal problems.

The issue is that the things that make a good tracker capable of finding lost/stolen items make them good at tracking people. I doubt you can address the later without compromising the ability to do the former. Some might say “just scan for trackers before you go anywhere” but the thing is why we have to alter out behavior to accommodate some proprietary product.