Jurisprudence changes VERY slowly, and for good reasons. But I believe there is movement in a good direction about location data privacy.

For a long time, the thinking was, there is no expectation of privacy in public so your location in public is not 4A protected. That was kinda reasonable 50 years ago, before massive scale data aggregation. In recent years the courts are slowly recognizing that indescriminate aggregation of loc history creates a difference in kind. The “entirety of your movements” should enjoy 4A protection, even tho a single observation of your loc is not protected.

The courts are not a monolith. There are hundreds of thousands of judges each with their own views. The system changes slowly. There are judges still adhering to the “no expectation of privacy in public” idea. But there is a shift happening. Even SCOTUS has started to recognize that dragnet loc surveilence is a problem.

I suppose they are going to require some KYC info. They have legal reqs they have to meet. So, I get that they must know my real identity. Still, they could do it without a photo ID given to a 3rd party identiy broker. There are other ways, which do not depend on an ID copy which every identity thief in the world wants.

IDK if it was Persona, but when I tried to sign up last year, they demanded I send a copy o fmy photo ID to a 3rd party identity broker. I refused, and did not sign up. Given the recent huge breaches of photo ID databases, I feel kinda vindicated about that.