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"We have successfully partnered with them (police) on cases where information we provided has been used to trace an AirTag back to the perpetrator, who was then apprehended and charged."

Obviously each air tag is associated with an iCloud account, so this could be quite an effective move on Apples part.

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A less charitable reading is "We've had at least 1 solid case of criminal use of the AirTag that lead to arrest and charge.".

Why would that be less charitable? Many things can be abused criminally. Arrest and charges are how our society deals with it if someone does. Deterrence prevents crimes in many cases. Not all, but many.

It's not common for many companies to admit that their product was used for crime, and here is one, in a PR piece about "We care sooo much about our users' safety!"

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