It uniquely identifies you out of all the people on the planet, and through that identification it allows correlation of a number of highly personal and related information points including related persons, roommates, their information, etc.

By linking information together it gets increasingly more unique. They don't need to know your name it uses a building a bridge strategy where related data gets backfilled, and devices, and dossiers get re-targeted based to new devices on the fly based on these unique signatures, proximity, and too many other ways to count.

Some SMART street lights for example record and send back voice data to Qualcomm for processing. The advertised signature matching for this is shot-spotter, but it can be done for any audio signature server side or pushed out to the nodes in the dumb remote sensor networks for potential realtime tracking (1984). Every Tesla that catches you while you are out in public registers you in its data which is sent to a centralized system capable of tracking your every move over time, just like ALPR cameras. Roving sensor networks track everything you do, everywhere you go, what your interests are, your history...

This can include your related and semi-related device nodes, and equipment, phone, car, anything with a microprocessor and a connected network.

Your devices overnight location (home, where you sleep), your location and travel data (behavioral pattern matching), phone data needed needed to set up taps using SS7. All very illegal, but only punishable retroactively when they are caught in the act just like decrypting certain radio bands.

In conjunction with this metadata, it can be used to unmask and de-anonymize publicly purchaseable location data. Who you work for, what you are working on, etc.

From there, it can glean extremely personal insights. If you visited an ER, an abortion clinic, a doctor. Based on the vendors it can further correlate the type of services, or the fact that you might have cancer, be pregnant, have a non-public health condition, often before you yourself know.

It allows the creation of a dossier of you as a person, where you go, your habits, all the information needed to surveil you, blackmail you, coerce you, all to the highest bidder, which will be someone who took umbridge at something you did, or someone looking to vet you only to never find out that you didn't meet their expectations after they read the report and biased against you.

This information then can be used to discriminate against you without your knowledge or perception, there is no opting out. The information available allows believable lies to be fabricated where you are considered guilty without trial or basis, effectively bearing false witness.

When you deviate from patterns found, it will be used against you to justify further discrimination, or heightened risk increasing harassment, loss of opportunities, etc, all unlawfully.

Demotions at work or passed up for promotions, or firings based on unfounded accusations (cancel culture), or the mere presence in the same location (proximity).

Guilty until proven innocent for the wildest thing any crazy person might think up, but the data is collected and who is to say its false when it is just data (neutral), and it supports false narratives.

These harms is what privacy protects you from, without privacy you are considered a slave who can never change from what's written. Inherently, this thinking promotes the narrative that people don't ever change.

Coincidences in life happen, extremely unlikely things happen, but this information will always be considered proof of something else, in the worst light. Guilt by association, proximity, etc, in other words violation of your fundamental human rights, and you have no agency to change it. What comes along with it is mental coercion and torture, turtles all the way down until you break; all from making some 'inconsequential' decision somewhere about your privacy.

You piss someone off, rub them the wrong way for calling out bad behavior, or they just fixate on you, and you don't give them a second thought until you find yourself dead in your living room by the police unexpectedly, because they SWAT-ted you, or they leave other breadcrumbs that these systems view as trusted and indicative truth (when they are fabricated). AFAIK, There is a presumption in law that electronic devices are considered to be operating correctly unless you can prove otherwise (which you most often never can, given limited specs and other issues).

It is these type of security concerns that are inherent in any data collection.

Visibility of information is the first thing any adversary needs to have a successful attack on you. They can do so fast or slow. Slow involves increasing harassment, pruning your social network, making communications unreliable, torturing you and isolating you until you break; and everyone eventually breaks. Disadvantaging you, forever forward.

Geico is already using this information to justify higher rates for most members. If you own a hybrid car, and this is being mandated in the future to slow climate change, you have regenerative braking. Geico classified anything that isn't regenerative breaking as hard braking which indicates reckless driving. If you hard brake, you were a reckless driver and had to pay higher rates. They did this using your LexisNexis report which was not public until a class action lawsuit for them, years in the making. Your car mfg through the telematics data link may have sent information to these companies without your knowledge or agency.

They charged higher rates to people who owned hybrids that avoided accidents, while simultaneously causing them to incentivize causing the same said accidents by avoiding hard braking to avoid higher rates. Its circular.

There are so many public examples of the collected information being used to harm you, and the collection not being properly disclosed or there being no agency to say no.

An example of this is where data brokers would share data between their competitors, and any removed records would be returned at the next sync because deleted records were removed, but not all at once. The data repopulates, the shuffle of isolated database merges.

Data breaches are encouraged because once its out there you can't punish them after a certain period of time. Strangers can insert themselves into your life without you knowing.

There was an interesting recent project where a person used AI facial recognition in conjunction with smart glasses to pull public dossiers and pretend to be people these targets met in the past, and this was done at a subway stop. Chance meeting... you give someone enough information that is non-public and they believe your plausible story. Can't seem to find the project now, but there was a youtube video about it.

Master Data Management is the area that touches these systems the most in IT.

Privacy is the right to not be blackmailed, coerced, or generally speaking at the mercy of malevolent people seeking you harm directly or indirectly.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2021/04/how-juganus-smart-...

The Qualcomm smart streetlights have been around since 2016.

Do you suppose you have an expectation of privacy if its just two people on an empty public street? If you are tagged, just like the whales, deer, and other wildlife; are you an animal or a human? Food for thought.