[usrusr]

Before that ticket, everybody who isn't a full time paranoiac was digitally buying identity bound tickets for specific routes. Known to the selling entity even when the ticket wasn't checked at all. Now that same entity will only see a random location sample the moment the ticket happens to get checked, and zero information about the actual route end points. And paranoiacs can still skip the offer and get a paper ticket just like before (and like everybody who doesn't travel by train very often).

Those concerns simply don't add up: if it was a ploy by a surveillance operation hidden in the train org, they'd have just spent billions on blinding themselves. There so much less data now than there was before.