I think equating tracking with the loss of privacy is useless. Privacy is a modern ideal. People for most of pre-recorded and recorded history have not had privacy, they've just been unable to communicate with or see anyone outside the range of their voices or eyes. People have generally eaten, shat, screwed, etc., in front of each other. That is, most people except hermits and monks. Well, and those who liked to masturbate
Iow, "private" is what a person doesn't want other people to see or hear. It can little to do with what people "can" see or hear. Sure, you can put on your briefs to keep your nuts covered; everyone covers their private parts. But, ya go to a nude beach and the 'privates' are out there in pubic ... er, public for anyone who wanted to look. That's because, obviously, those people either wanted to show or felt they had nothing to hide.
Now, personally, I don't like the idea that car companies install OnStar for free; but, if you don't want to pay, you can't disable the device. And, even if it were disabled, they could re-enable it. (Btw, I've had LoJack for 10 years). Anyway, it's just a signal and a computer --and unless you're planning to remove your car's computer, then resistance to tracking will be futile, anyway. Americans, particularly, have turned privacy into an ideological subject while adopting all the technological media that destroys that ideological illusion. People want to be able to see and hear things thousands of miles away or in the past, but don't want to be seen or heard. Yeah, it's true; ya wouldn't want a gov't agent in the room listening while you're planning the govt's overthrow with your friend ... or if you were planning to rob a bank. That doesn't change when you get on the phone, or on your CB or on the internet.
So, for me, it comes down to whether I want to be like the guy on the nude beach or the criminal. Yeah, I know that "privacy" is a "good think" to some people who would never be criminals. I'm just saying that I think the gov't "should" be afraid of me because I've got nothing to hide. I am interested in what people want to hide. Ok, porn; but, shoot, gov't officials are probably among the biggest consumers. Voyeurs don't really bother me ... at my age. If the gov't wants to view my willy, as long as they're not interrupting me while I'm using it and I don't have to take time off from work, what the hey.
"A man is rich when he has time and freewill. How he chooses to invest both will determine the return on his investment."