Comment by potato3732842

That's a whole lotta words for "it's ok because it's happening to people who do a thing I don't like"

And then you justify it by lying to us?

> This is a good thing. We've been installing tracking numbers on them for decades, what did you think they were for?

Taxes was priority #1. This is a matter of public record. Being able to ascribe ownership as needed in edge case circumstances as a second order goal. Tracking was never really a priority because it was never really possible to do at scale before.

>Walk, bike, transit.

Ah, yes, the bus and subway with their always on 4k cameras that are being fed into god knows what software and algorithms which are then populating god knows what databases.