It's not even close to practically the same. What is the actual rate at which the government subpoenas smartwatch location history and the probability it will h

It's not even close to practically the same. What is the actual rate at which the government subpoenas smartwatch location history and the probability it will happen to you? This is like saying the fact the government has the capability to imprison or shoot you at any time and you would not be able to stop them is exactly the same as actually being imprisoned or executed. But yes, clearly the best way forward is individual data sovereignty. The reason intelligent personal digital assistants that knew you intimately didn't seem dystopian when they were in Star Trek is because nobody then envisioned that the software and data would be running on corporate servers. We envisioned these things being more along the lines of trusted friends in their own right, with a clear data boundary at the physical limit of the sensing devices they used, not that they would be perpetually networked and owned by third parties like Amazon. They weren't supposed to share information with anyone but you.