[cameldrv]

If the issue is that they need a warrant to enter someone's house, perhaps they should simply get one. I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that find my iPhone reporting that someone's phone was in someone else's house would constitute probable cause.

[shaftway]

My gut reaction is to agree, but after a deeper thought I'm not sure. Let's say you wanted to weaponize this. How would you do it?

You could follow someone with a nice bike, throw an airtag on the roof and claim that the bike was stolen from you. Most people don't have specific enough proof of purchase to refute this.

You could actually commit a crime, as happened to the author, and then throw her keys on the roof of the house of someone you didn't like, framing them.

These both seem like inevitable outcomes if the policy was reversed.