[krichman]

This reaction isn't pretending technology doesn't exist. On the contrary, I believe they are very forward looking to oppose a seemingly innocuous thing that could become a tool of some imagined police state 50 or 100 years in the future. Legislating against this would be a good precedent for when those drones that can track X-centimeter objects from Y kilometers away become more commonplace.

So no, it's not the freedom from having your license plate OCR'd:

> And, according to recent research reported in Nature, it’s possible to identify 95% of individuals with as few as four randomly selected geospatial datapoints (location + time), making location data the ultimate biometric identifier.

It's the freedom from having the government know exactly who was exactly where at all times, which may be important for peaceful groups (if the only possible victims were violent nobody would oppose this) that are against its policies.

The question is not "how can we preserve our privacy by preventing technology from advancing" but "do we want the government or arbitrary private entities to be able to know what we are doing all day every day?"