Not everyone has a smart phone, not everyone shops at a super market that has loyalty programs, not everyone uses GPS in their cars, and not everyone lives in a part of the country that has toll roads or SmartPass.
But everyone has to deal with the IRS....if the IRS knowing how much you make and where you make it, and then takes half of that money, that is the ultimate invasion of privacy and liberty as far as I’m concerned. The author of this piece should be concerned about THAT. My local super market doesn’t have the authority to seize my property and throw me in jail, but numerous government agencies do have that power.
I’ve recently become quite concerned about how my medical records seem to be an open book.
Your second points not withstanding, don't be too smug about much of your first.
Location tracking works with any cell phone that connects to towers, IOW, any cell phone. Actual GPS might be even more exact, but simple triangulation of cell towers is close enough for the concerns expressed in this article.
And you may not use the loyalty programs (I don't either) but I bet you do use your credit/debit card (I do) You know, the one with your name on it... IOW, the store gets the same info with only the minor bother of matching the name to the record of sale. Now, true they don't automatically have your address from that like they might with a loyalty card, but that's usually a computer key away to people that actually use this stuff.
And you're correct about toll roads, but with OnStar and the aforementioned cell phone data, that too is becoming an academic point.