Location data is arguably more important than financial or medical data. Atleast in a context where someone is after you. Thanks to bribery and data brokers, it doesnt have to be anyone in Govt or LE tracking you. Collect certain identifiers from a device or account and you can track almost anyone. Financial and medical data access is certainly bad, but your location data can be used to orchestrate a stalking campaign or a murder in a deniable way.

It is why after the U.S. kills or captures some foreign leader, they brag about figuring out their routes and daily habits. It is not a stretch to say that it could also be done, and probably has before, in the U.S.

Extreme penalities should be put in place for any location data access without a court order... And your location should never be allowed to be sold or shared with any non court approved third party. It really is that serious and if the public had the bandwidth to be concerned over another issue, maybe something would change.

Who knows, maybe all the public needs to take it seriously are some real life examples of location data being used illegally...

Some countries make a citizen's residential address public under certain circumstances, i.e. business ownership. There's nothing you can do to erase it once it is registered. It really sucks because you may have a business that involves having a public product that is used by thousands of people. Any disgruntled user can look up where you live.

>Hmm yeah but then I'm one of 80 million choices in my country.

If we are talking about some sandom terrorist or something like that, yes.

But sometimes it's more personal despitethe fact that you did nothing wrong objectevly.

Jealocity (you got a girl and her ex. took it too close to heart), envy, disputes in an alterd stated (drunk figh). Etc.

My uncle (mother's side) has a schizophrenia and constantly threatens to find someone to kill me and my entire family (including his sister of course).