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by kaluga 199 days ago
The surprising part isn’t the proposal itself, but how casually “always-on location” keeps getting reframed as a safety feature instead of a massive expansion of the data surface. Any system that normalizes continuous device-level tracking tends to get repurposed far beyond its original intent. History shows the problem isn’t why it’s introduced — it’s what it inevitably gets used for later.