Actually you’re VERY MUCH in the group that never learns. Multiple people on this thread have explained to you how full of crap you are. You won’t listen. You’re paranoid. You’re silly. You’re making up reasons to be scared.
If that’s what you believed 8 months ago then you had clearly not bothered to understand what emergency powers are, and what government can do with them. Once again, your ignorance. None of what happened with covid is new. Not even new for dealing with a disease.
So now you’ve found out what your government has been able to do literally all your life, and the lives of every person you’ve ever met. And you’re making up more crap to freak out about.
You already give the government tons of information about you. Probably 20 times more than they could ever want. You don’t realize it. But it’s true. We live in a big data world. Have for a long time. 25 years ago Target could figure out within a couple of weeks if a repeat customer was pregnant based just on how the hormonal changes alter their buying habits even before they find out their pregnant. Think about all the data analysis that goes into even being able to detect that pattern.
We are in a post privacy world. Have been since at least the 80s. And there really is not a damn thing you can do about it. Unless you want to become a mountain man living entirely on 19th century technology and having basically no interaction with any business at all.
The smartphones can very easily track us and who we talk to.
And the internet... the ISPs keep a log of all traffic.
I know.
What is the difference? Not that the information is being compiled as you have noted, and has been for decades.
What is different is that we have become complacent and have accepted that our data can be used however the powers that be chose without our say.
It is this complacency that has allowed it to happen.
You are as complacent as they come... you have drunk the koolaid, my friend.
Instead of accepting is as fact, you need to ask... can you trust the powers that be with this information? It may be too late. I, for one, will not make it easy for them to track my activities. They'll have people like you who accept it as a done deal and make it easy for them.