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Means absolutely nothing if license plate tracking, biometric (facial et al) tracking, financial tracking, and other more sophisticated forms tracking, from link tracking (follow your social grouping = easily follow you) to drones and beyond.

We'll get none of it as long as vested interests strenuously and financially (read: lobbying/PAC-political donations) object to the very construct of an implicit right to privacy, and the possibility of an explicit right that, say, adds superpowers to 4th Amendment is so far off that one sees the fall of humanity on the horizon long before any such thing is put to bill.



Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Progress, even incremental, makes it more expensive for the brokers and shows evidence that _something_ can be done.




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