This is the official joint proposal from Apple and Google. The problem is there is an irreconcilable conflict of interest between the needs of people who use trackers like AirTags for anti-theft purposes, and thus need them not to be detectable or possibly disabled by thieves, and the needs of people who are stalked to identify and disable trackers they don’t control. I don’t see how the conflict can be resolved, other than allowing only police to do that, but it would be very cumbersome for victims of stalking.<p>Also, since Apple’s Find My network is open to third-party manufacturers, unless they have some authentication mechanism, there is nothing preventing a manufacturer from defecting and implementing a tracker that uses the network, is not detectable by not having a beeper, but still implements the rest of the protocol to be locatable.