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So you block ads on your phone and next thing you know they're tracking you outdoors. Geez. We need some regulation pretty soon otherwise this whole situation will get out of hand. What if someone hacks into that billboard and routes the data elsewhere?

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Next I expect they will tracking license plates and spending enormous amounts of money correlating those plates to actual people.

Or from the auto insurance companies who offer per miles rates if you install their trackers, or the States implementing mileage based gas tax tracking gizmos. What could go wrong?

Or they could pay insurance companies to give them these correlations.

Or even the police, who last I read do sell their plate data gathered from their car cameras.

But how can you ever "regulate" people seeing what happens outdoors, in public? At best, you'll force honest companies not to do it, and dishonest ones to pretend they don't.

I know that this argument applies to many things, but this one in particular seems utterly un-regulatable to me.

Companies can't be completely invisible -- they have customers and employees, they file legal and tax disclosures...

You can ban billboards, as some forward thinking cities have done.

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