[bananapub]

it is absolutely amazing that this plus the "military facilities being mapped via Strava data" etc never lead to a serious discussion about privacy in general in the US. why does the government allow this commercial database to exist at all?

[anticorporate]

The government allows commercial spying to exist so they can buy the data. They would have all sort of legal hurdles collecting this data themselves, but they don't have to bother with it when the corporations collecting it are doing the dirty work for them.