[AnthonyMouse]

> What I mean by the first paragraph, in case it's not clear, is that most technologies can and probably will be abused, which doesn't go a long way to say that they should be forbidden right at the start, if there is good to be had in them. You just have to be careful not to allow abuses (which by your post I figured you don't think are happening at this moment)

Collecting data isn't a technology, it's a use of a technology. And preventing mass data collection is how you disallow abuse.

The vast majority of the productive use of e.g. location tracking data is possible when you have the data on yourself and nobody has mass data on everyone. The things that are only possible with bulk data collection are almost universally bad.