(07-25-2021, 10:24 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(07-25-2021, 10:18 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: No, we are not. Our digital footprint is nothing more than anonymous bits in a huge pile of data. No one is tracking or giving any special attention to it. I hate to break it to you, but we’re not important enough to track.

Now, should we go on a murder spree, or some other offense which requires law enforcement action, then our previously anonymous data bits become 
a point of investigation.

I understand we are dealing in semantics here, but I am going back to your point of "No one is being tracked unless they want to track you. It’s no different than being surveilled by someone following you."

This is a false statement because we are in fact being tracked, as you gracefully described it as a digital footprint of anonymous bits that only become relevant if we do something unlawful, or maybe even lawful that someone happens to disagree with.