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The information becomes more private the more aggregated it gets. If you have a stalker following you around everywhere, you can get a restraining order against them. If detailed information of your locations were to be available online, you couldn't stop anyone from looking at it.

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Looking at it and then what? If they act on it by actually stalking you, then yes, arrest them. We already have laws against that.

What harm comes to you by someone looking at a record of where you've been?

He can know when you leave and get home. Perfect time for a robbery.

This is backwards from how robberies work. Burglars go to a neighborhood and look for a house where nobody's home. They don't pick out a house before hand and wait until it's empty.

Even if they did, why would they try to crack into a government database instead of just sitting outside until you leave?

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