Should companies be required to pay customers when they misuse location data?

The reason location misuse keeps happening is that each victim's harm is too small to sue over and too personal to ignore. No one hires a lawyer because a broker sold their grocery-store trips for fractions of a cent, so the broker keeps selling millions of them. This is the classic collective-action problem, and the law already solved it elsewhere: wage-and-hour statutes let workers recover small underpayments automatically because the legislature knew nobody sues over $40. Location privacy needs the same machinery. The Supreme Court recognized in Carpenter that movement records paint an intimate portrait of a life. Oyez. A statutory payment turns millions of individually un-sueable violations into one enforceable obligation, which is the only scale that matches how the data was taken: in bulk, automatically, without asking. Individual lawsuits were never going to fix bulk surveillance. Aggregated payment can.