Comment by a-dub

> Strong Federal privacy laws would make posts like this unnecessary, that’s the world I’d rather live in.

yes. there ought to be a right to reasonable expectation of behavioral privacy where if it's not obvious and intrinsic to function that behavior is being recorded then it must be consented with functional opt-out.

gps tracking to the manufacturer of a car seems egregious. i wonder if it runs afoul of anti-stalking laws.