Until these companies turn around and sell that data to the government, which doesn't require a warrant since the company is volunteering to provide it, and if they don't want to sell it, the government will happily use one of it's loopholes around warrants to demand it anyway. The government does this constantly with location data[1], browsing history[2], license plate scanners[3], and more.
We should be pushing to close these warrantless search loopholes, but in the meanwhile the only pragmatic way for an individual to maintain privacy is to prevent any and all third parties from collecting the data to begin with. After it has been collected, you have no control and no reasonable expectations of how it will be used.
> prevent any and all third parties from collecting the data to begin with.
This is what I have been doing. What can you add to this?
On phone disable Bluetooth, disable precise location, disable location and infrequently turn that on for something like photo geotag, use carrier phone number for nothing and use phone numbers from googlevoice or others.
Put cars in LLCs or Trusts with address at POBox or UPS. Never use home address for mail unless it is from family. Put utilities in name of LLC or Trust.
> Until these companies turn around and sell that data to the government...
Yes, the larger issue is that the government has just outsourced a lot of the work to corporations to get around the Constitution. If there were any integrity left in the US government, there would be a reckoning about this. We worry about regulatory capture, but the bigger problem is deep state/military-industrial complex capture.
We should be pushing to close these warrantless search loopholes, but in the meanwhile the only pragmatic way for an individual to maintain privacy is to prevent any and all third parties from collecting the data to begin with. After it has been collected, you have no control and no reasonable expectations of how it will be used.
[1]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government...
[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/can-government-look-yo...
[3]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/cbp-does-end-run...