[gnicholas]

> If you are an iPhone user, for instance, and someone has placed an AirTag on your person, your phone will eventually alert you that an AirTag that isn’t yours has been found “moving with you.” Apple didn’t clarify how quickly or often this alert will arrive, but it did share that it will occur when you arrive at your home (the address stored in your Apple “Me” card) or at certain other locations that your phone has learned you frequent over time. Apple declined to disclose further specifics, citing the interest of public safety.

It’s not great that the alert won’t trigger until you get home. At that point, the stalker now knows where you live.

[randyrand]

And you also know where theif theif lives.

For a very high value item, or for repeat offenses, it gives you a shot at getting your item back.

[takeda]

I also find it ironic, that from the quote you posted it also sounds like: "no one can stalk you but us".

[meatmanek]

s/us/your phone, that we control the software for/

I believe this learning is done on-device, not relayed to the cloud.

Depending on whether you take Apple's statements at face value about how much they care about your privacy, that's either a big difference or a meaningless difference.

[takeda]

I doubt that figuring the places that you frequent is computed on your phone. Most likely it sends your locations and then Apple runs hadoop jobs (or whatever it is used these days) to get these things.