> I don’t think my Mac allows GPS to be passed, but IP gives an approximation. Not sure how to get around that. I don't know how much apple restricts access t

> I don’t think my Mac allows GPS to be passed, but IP gives an approximation. Not sure how to get around that. I don't know how much apple restricts access to other things that can give away your location besides IP geolocation, but things like nearby wifi networks and nearby bluetooth beacons/devices are also being used to generate maps that can give extremely accurate location data. Typically cell tower data can ID a mobile device to within a mile or so, but where 5G is available the resolution is improved to feet instead of miles. If they can link the data they get from your library or from these streaming services to the data they get from your wireless provider they could know your part of town (4G) or which house (or even which room of that house) you're standing in (5G) > Do you know if the library gives my address, etc? To the feds? that's difficult to answer. The government doesn't give the public details of what kind of information they're taking and when. There's a decent article about the past collection of library data by the FBI and the resurgence of the practice post-9/11 here: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Americans-reading-habits-2826830.php https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame... When they lost the fight to keep the government from snooping around some libraries responded by changing their data collection practices to limit as much as possible what data they had on their users. You can check with your library and see if they have your address on file. If they do, I would assume that it would be up for grabs if the government came knocking and I would recommend starting from the assumption that all available data is being collected routinely on everyone, from every location. While the official line will be that this sort of collection by the state will be targeted (even if that means targeting everyone who checked out books about certain subjects or anyone who fits a certain profile) without a whistleblower willing to risk everything to come forward how could we ever really know the extent of the data collection taking place? One of the things that drove Snowden to become a whistleblower himself was that he knew from first hand experience that the then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and the director of the NSA Keith Alexander (who is currently sitting on Amazon's board of directors) were lying to Congress while under oath about when where and how the agency was spying on Americans. There's really no reason to take these organizations at their word, or to assume that even those in the highest offices in our government would know what they were up to any better than you or I do.