> Your "anonymized" cell phone GPS data can be used pretty easily to determine when you're not home for purposes of burglary.
Please - PLEASE - find me ONE example of a home burglary occuring under these circumstances.
> Your purchasing habits could cause you to become a prime suspect for a terrorist who used those same items in your area for a recent attack, like if your wife was buying a pressure cooker while you were buying backpacks for your kids doing back to school shopping.
This is just beyond nuts. Stop watching so much television, it's not good for your mental health.
>Please - PLEASE - find me ONE example of a home burglary occuring under these circumstances.
Likely not possible. By definition, these would be successful burglaries that happened when owner was not home and perpetrator was likely never caught.
Remember, the close rate on burglaries in the US is in the low teens - 13% as of 2022[1], and by definition, these were the dumb perpetrators that got caught - the 13% least competent||lucky of all home burglars.
Buying a pressure cooker and a backpack causing you to be suspected of terrorism is nuts?
Oh, you sweet, sweet, naïve summer child. This isn't fiction, it's a story from real life that's happened many times. A cursory search engine query shows numerous examples of this, e.g. this one[2] that happened over a decade ago!
I can't force you to be rationally worried about entirely plausible risks, just keep in mind that your irrational lack of concern for such possibilities only puts yourself at risk.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd guess you're politically likely to be progressive/left wing. Do you know that's empirically correlated[3] with having less mass in your amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for evaluating threats and risks?
Several personal insults and as for evidence, a single "Long Island woman claims" allegation from ten years ago. Plus a political derangement twist - how exciting!
It is fascinating how insecure a person like you is capable of being degraded to by the same systems you so vehemently decry. It's analogous to being afraid of everyone on the street because they might have a black belt in martial arts.
Many people live well and successfully, myself included, without being addicted to technology like the phones described. It's called discipline and self-control (and reading comprehension for the ToS).
"Rights" - even those enshrined in the Bill of Rights - are trampled on daily.
Try traveling with a concealed firearm across state lines. Or telling a K-9 police officer they can't search your car after the dog has alerted. Or use your free speech privilege to spread alleged vitriol.
There's no such thing as "rights" - only what individuals can defend in the current place and time they're in.
Or simply having the audacity to travel on an airplane.
> There's no such thing as "rights" - only what individuals can defend in the current place and time they're in.
I suppose that is the way it always has been. When the government was small people just didn't care what they were up to. The people became complacent and allowed a beast to grow. If the rights we are supposed to have keep getting trampled on revolution is inevitable. It may take a long hellish time to happen but that is one fork in the path we are on.
> Your "anonymized" cell phone GPS data can be used pretty easily to determine when you're not home for purposes of burglary.
Please - PLEASE - find me ONE example of a home burglary occuring under these circumstances.
> Your purchasing habits could cause you to become a prime suspect for a terrorist who used those same items in your area for a recent attack, like if your wife was buying a pressure cooker while you were buying backpacks for your kids doing back to school shopping.
This is just beyond nuts. Stop watching so much television, it's not good for your mental health.