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Privacy respecting alternative to airtags
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this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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I’ve answered this question for someone else in the context of tracking luggage. Your use case is also one that the branded apple airtags are best at.
If you want a big headache project that doesn’t work then try anything but airtags.
Theres an android find my app and you can run it in a container in graphene.
If you want a quick, simple, functional solution to your problem then bite the bullet and use airtags.
You, uh, also maybe shouldn’t be asking for “privacy respecting” electronic tracking devices. The application is fundamentally not private and cannot respect privacy by design.
So what is not private about airbags? I'd like to know what people say is not private about them? I guess I'll have another look at the whitepapers to see, or is it people have no idea how they work and just assume not private.
It’s the latter