I thought these things were supposed to pop up and alert you if one was in your vicinity/moving with you, that isn’t registered/belonging to you, to prevent stuff like this (and stalking).
But if you don’t have an iPhone (I suppose there are a handful of high-end car owners who, for whatever reason, don’t) then you could be tracked this way without ever realizing?
Are these people doing additional front-end research to make sure they’re attaching them to the cars of people without iPhones? Or would an Android-based phone also receive some sort of “strange tracker detected nearby…is this yours?” alert?
Point is, there isn’t anything in the world that shitheads and lowlifes can’t/won’t corrupt or use in a bad, wrong or shady way.
The day these things were announced the first thing that crossed my mind was “the thieves, stalkers and creepsters of the world will all get a kick out of these, and use them in ways Apple would never advertise”.