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Just like some states are toying around with taxing us on how much we drive, which I'm not necessarily opposed to except for how they want to go about it. Instead of just recording our annual mileage during an annual inspection, they're talking about installing GPS trackers on every car (see Oregon). F that.

There is LARGE sums of money to be made by removing privacy and monitoring (and controlling) behavior. Google and Facebook have proved this. Every other company is desperately trying to capitalize, like Google, on a perverse and absolute violation of our privacy for profit.

People often think it's government that's out to get them all the while forgetting that corporations have no oversight, have not voting constituency and often times wield more power than the government itself.

We should resist this new normal, it is NOT good and if we let set it in, we (as a society) won't be able to reverse it because it will require policy to reverse it and we don't own our politicians, the corporations that are seeking to own our privacy do.

I used to have a Facebook account but no longer and when people ask me why I just tell them: "If you don't hold your privacy in high regard, neither will the rest of the world."