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such as the legal requirement to carry your phone at all times

In such a hypothetical scenario, how is making this (currently opt-in) framework mandatory any different from requiring you to install a government provided app? Such a government app could trivially log sensor and GPS data, yielding a _far_ more detailed view. The point is that the mere existence of this framework doesn't make the situation any worse than it already is.

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