y2an

This is really passing the buck, and it applies to anyone offering a tracking device, not just Apple. Tags create new vectors for stalking and other nefarious activities and manufacturers have a responsibility to make safe products. Transferring that to the police (often overstretched in any case) places a cost burden on them without any compensation. This simply doesn’t work. Technical solutions need to be created such as immediate alerting of potential stalking and suppression of data to the tag owner until there is a positive action to confirm the tracking is ok. Less convenient for the tag owner, but rightfully so. 

Beats said:

The fact anyone can reverse engineer this is scary.

Anyone with the right (fairly advanced) skills can reverse engineer anything, given time and resources. 

There are numerous ways to get images on a person's device, like email, AirDrop, or iMessage, but the user has to manually add photos to the photo library.

Late in Q4 is a really bad time to drive a compliance campaign. Most businesses of any size are totally focussed on operations till January. Poor timing imho. 

Mac on ARM depends on Office on ARM which MS is delivering... so this is credible now