> the pickpocketers will just switch to muggings. That would be even worse. Surely you don’t want that, do you?

A contrast with law enforcement, is that the abusers are not punished and deterred, but instead encouraged to escalate the potency of their behaviour. Anti-tracking technology is preventing pick-pocketing by expecting people to ride in armoured cars. This should be part of the solution, but we also need deterrence.

Laws like the GDPR should in theory help, but sadly enforcement with regard to tracking consent has been lacklustre, and consequently and predictably the law is widely flaunted. This makes the mitigating technical measures all the more necessary, yet they are not a panacea.