Comment by ToucanLoucan

> Not quite the same. Attaching a GPS tracker involves physical trespass

Why does that matter? If your car is in public, do you not have any right to it's privacy either?

> and can track a person to non-public locations.

... what does that even mean? All locations are public, because by definition, locations only exist in public. What location have you been to that permits no one to see you arrive and later leave?

> Also, collecting data does not restrict one’s freedom of moment.

I mean, if that data can be used to imprison you, I think it's just matters of gradation whether you consider that true or false.

> Nor is it stalking. Stalking is a pattern of conduct designed to intimidate or inflict emotional distress.

But it clearly is. It's both a way to dragnet the public from doing illicit things, and it's deployed with a common selling point of reducing crime. You can say that instilling emotional distress in criminals is good but that also means you're doing that to at least some amount of the public.

> If knowing that someone else knows you were at a particular location at a particular time causes you distress, you have issues.

I do have issues! I have issues with my country being turned into a surveillance state because dipshits already worth more money than I will ever see in my lifetime need even more money. Yes I have issues with that.

> Do you flee from every other car that sees on the road?

As a woman, I've several times in my life had the experience of being followed by a car and not going my usual direct route home for fear of my safety. So not every car certainly, but if one was, I dunno, following close enough to get my license plate? Yeah I probably would try and "flee" that car.