Airtags & Find my phone - Is this the biggest surveillance tool available?

A couple of privacy focused people are pointing out that Apple Airtag and Apple Find My phone feature are very intrusive surveillance tools.

As I understand in the case of Airtags, they will constantly emit a "ping" via BLE (bluetooth low energy) with an ID. Any phones, including phones not related to the Airtag, when they receive the "ping" they will then send the location and ID of the airtag together with the location of the phone that received the …

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