The FBI director acknowledged that the FBI had bought location tracking data. Data about Americans, no less. But this scandal is being understood only at the superficial level.

The most superficial scandal here is that the FBI bought location data about Americans in order to track them.

A deeper scandal is that the company which collected the data was able to sell the data without asking permission of the users the data is about.

The deepest scandal here is that the company was able to collect location data about Americans. For real privacy, we need to require systems to be designed so as not to track people's life activities.

No systems should be able to keep track of where people go, what they do there, or who they communicate with.