[giaour]

Don't users have to opt in to Find Friends?

There also feels like a huge difference between your personal device tracking you and that same device tracking anyone who happens to walk by. The dystopian aspect of AirTags is how they repurpose existing Apple devices to create a surveillance network.

[gnicholas]

Yeah, but the point is that if they lived together, there's a very good chance that she had the password to his phone, or had access to it when it was unlocked.

[giaour]

He could always temporarily disable location reporting, turn off his phone, or just not take it with him if he didn't want to be tracked during a certain time.

There's no equivalent option with AirTags, since they use ambient devices and can be carried without the bearer's knowledge. I understand what you're trying to argue, but I just don't see an equivalence here in terms of stalker enablement.