I feel like I'm out of the loop on this one. Is there a specific reason the government shouldn't buy location data? I can think of good uses for the data (the

I feel like I'm out of the loop on this one. Is there a specific reason the government shouldn't buy location data? I can think of good uses for the data (the census, mapping traffic patterns, pandemic modeling). Purchase histories seem more telling to me if you want to know someone's secrets? Isn't the whole point of organisations like 5-eyes to bypass what little domestic restrictions there are? There are plenty of other entities I'd prefer not to access my data including state and lower level governments, corps, insurers, foreign governments (I'm a brit to be fully transparent). So why this particular combination of conditions?