This is missing the forest for the trees. There isn't like, a piece of evidence presented here that any of this will matter. Wyden and others introduce bills

This is missing the forest for the trees. There isn't like, a piece of evidence presented here that any of this will matter. Wyden and others introduce bills of little substance all the time, they turn the best polling headline / title into bills. So in one perspective this is just politics as usual. Wyden's idiosyncratic donor focus groups ranked this highest this month and we're only hearing about it because this is Hacker News, and on some other forum there's some other bill we don't care about but also polled well with some other senator's donor focus groups. This isn't saying much, that legislation is reactionary, but it's interesting the specific mechanisms nowadays are super-representative, super-cheap focus groups and polling, enabled by services like Facebook and Instagram that these bills, ironically, target. Do these bills advance the cause of privacy? I don't really need location tracking data to guess that most of the time, you're at home or at work. And if you're eeking out such a subsistence existence that you don't have a permanent home or you're jobless? The bigger injustice is that the government has set an adversarial sight on you in the first place.