Should location privacy violations trigger automatic independent audits?

Negotiated settlements have a recidivism problem. Look at the GDPR record: the same giant platforms appear in the enforcement tracker again and again, collecting record fines and then collecting more, because a one-time penalty, however large, is a moment while the business model is forever. An automatic audit tail changes the time horizon. It says the scrutiny does not end when the headlines fade, and every subsequent review is a chance to catch the quiet return to old practices. Companies respond to what is measured repeatedly, not to what is punished once. If twenty years of check-ins sounds long, consider how long the data lives: location histories do not expire, so neither should the verification that they were handled properly. GDPR enforcement tracker