in our coming future of things like star shield the government won’t need gps or phones to track us. Enough satellites in space to have high res images of all high population areas and real time ai tracking of all objects. Lol crying emoji
And even if they resolved that particular problem, most people would struggle to recognise most other people by looking only at the top of their head and shoulders from almost directly above...
Are you sure?
They were talking about commercial satellites seeing dinner plates in back in 2014 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/latest-commercial-...) and seeing cell phones from space in 2015 (https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-resolution-k...) and AI could help turn even blurry faces into clear images (https://trinity.duke.edu/news/artificial-intelligence-makes-...)
I suspect that if the ability to identify people doesn't already exist in military satellites, it will very very soon.
None of these things - AI, software to remotely track users, etc needs to exist. We were doing fine without it and the potential for abuse is so high that there should be a pause on adoption until stakeholders, including ordinary citizens, have an opportunity to legislate concrete protections for privacy.
Overfishing doesn't need to exist either, but unfortunately we live in a world where it does.
I'm sure given the history of politics in the state that keeping things private is a high priority. Don't feed the prosecutors unless they're your kin and in that case, invite them for some gumbo.