Well good luck. There are a myriad of tracking devices waiting for the outcome. The only reason apple gets sued is due to deep pockets.
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Apple Sued by Women After Exes Use AirTags to Stalk Them
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Yes. Ever hear of guns? Guns don’t kill people, etc etc etc. same with any technology can be used for good or not.
I didn't realize it was wrong to track your kids when they go off to school. Isn't that a selling point phone companies use to entice worried parents to buy their children cell phones? Next will people need to get permission from their pets to hang one of these around their necks?
Cellar-based tracker is still much better than an AirTag. Tracking people like this has been happening for years.
The influencers are working hard today. Y’all forgot the ”this is like suing street light companies for a drunk driver running a red light and crashing into an innocent driver who had a green light” reference.
But guns are only designed to harm people.
Or for people to have fun with at target practice, maybe? I at least have a hard time when people say that if we should try to limit the amount of guns in society because them being so common makes it more likely that someone gets shot we should also limit cars because they kill people in accidents. What a lousy analogy! While cars can be used to kill people they are first and foremost designed to transport people and goods. What are guns mainly designed to do? 🤔
Any ambulance chaser worth his salt would tell you to sue the defendants with the deepest pockets. None are deeper than Apple’s. It’s the American way.
It's funny, but I saw someone post on Facebook about how this tech should be banned because it could be used by evil people to hurt other people. Then I went to her homepage and saw it was plastered with "Second Amendment" memes.
I wouldn't say a knives. But there has been a lot of discussion of being able to sue gun manufacturers.
Putting an airtag in a wheel well to know where someone lives is next level psycho. What happens to that person?
Yep. The very definition of a frivolous lawsuit. Some lawyer smelled money because it's Apple, but it's unlikely to go anywhere.
People who survive will be far less likely to stalk, and those that don't will be 100% less likely.
I agree with you. The difference, right or wrong, is that the public hasn't been manipulated for decades to fear those other things like they have been to fear guns or gun owners.
So here's the thing. There's already precedent in favor of Apple. In the 80's movie studios sued to outlaw VHS recorders in the U.S. because the "could" be used to illegally pirate and sell movies. But the intent and common use of VHS recorders was to both film and watch special events in your life and record your favorite TV show when you couldn't be home while it aired and you could then watch it later. I belive this went all the way to the Supreme Court.
At any rate, the movie studios lost. The crux of the ruling was that, just because something "could" be used for illegal or nefarious purposes, doesn't outweigh the consumer's right to the many more legal uses of such a product. The same will undoubtedly apply here.
It always disappoints and angers me when someone wrongly references this case. That poor woman suffered severe burns to her genitals because the coffee was so hot it caused, I believe, 3rd degree burns. She just wanted to have her medical bills covered and McDonald’s spent the money ensuring her character was assassinated in the public eye instead.
It is not improbable. Or, hear me out here, maybe the kid kept misplacing his bag or was being bullied by other kids taking and hiding his bag? Painting and hiding it in a tire well is fairly blatant, but that is just one feasible explanation for tracking a kid’s backpack.
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