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If Google and Apple start doing this wirh Bluetooth and WiFi on Location Services, they're not that far off the The Dark Knight sonar scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRELLH86Edo
That's what they are deploying. This has been possible for awhile, but has recently gotten much creepier: https://groundy.com/articles/wifi-densepose-full-body-tracking-through-walls-using-your/
Except that TDK is fiction, so the billionaire has morals
I did like that old Reddit post where someone did the math on the charges he’d get for this and everything else was a rounding error compared to the hacking charges