"Women are being advised to play copyrighted Disney music when they spot men secretly recording them with Meta glasses."

[u/Sebastianlim]

[u/licoricenipple]

AirTags originally only beeped or notified you of proximity after 3 days, and there were recorded cases of stalkers putting them on their victims' cars and swapping them out every few nights to avoid it. They shortened it to randomized sub-day intervals because of all the people worked up about stalking.

The pre-existing tracking devices you're talking about were considered riskier because they required an active SIM card and data plan for real-time tracking, and in many countries it's hard to sign up for a data plan without identifying information. AirTags worked without a data plan and only required an Apple account which you could create anonymously. The other type, which don't require a data plan but only record GPS information to internal storage, were a lot less popular for stalkers because they didn't offer real-time tracking, only history.

[u/Im_Unsure_For_Sure → u/licoricenipple]

People still stopped complaining. The product still enables stalking.