In this day and age, a gps tracker on a car is outdated tech. People carry phones with them that have much better geolocating devices than whatever these police

In this day and age, a gps tracker on a car is outdated tech. People carry phones with them that have much better geolocating devices than whatever these police departments can buy off the shelf. People are crying foul about “dystopian” nanny state. In reality, that worst case scenario has already come to life. Except it’s not the government, it’s private entities vacuuming up all of your data. Your phone, your “smart car”, IoT devices, your smart home, various free software, emails, voice recordings, search history, watched video history, social media engagements, purchase history. All of these possible vectors. It’s all packaged up, and sold to advertisers or used to train LLM models. Even the government entities have been caught buying up private data [1] September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11) — changed the game on privacy. PATRIOT Act is awful. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/tech/the-nsa-buys-americans-internet-data-newly-released-documents-show/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/tech/the-nsa-buys-americans-i...