That's the thing here in the US though. This information gets passed around essentially indiscriminately and so opaquely. Companies sell the data that end-users think is trivial when in essence it's very valuable. The mass ignorance for the sake of convenience is so high that the train would have to wreck before anything gets done.

Stallman is right in the sense that we're all carrying around tracking devices and it's a scary concept when you put it that way but are you really going to knock down the reality door to the mobile phone users and get them to stop using the phones? Probably not. While I respect Stallman to the highest degree, immediately after reading this comment, I couldn't help but think of John Malkovich's character in Red.