[pdoub]

While I'm also unhappy it's not being offered as a physical ticket, I can say from roughly 10 trips between 200 and 500km and a lot of local metro/bus riding that the frequency with which your ticket is actually checked shouldn't be enough to provide enough data for sophisticated tracking (esp. in comparison to "the normal amount" of GPS/tracking/movement data that smartphones already produce throughout the various apps we all have installed and that are being used on during trainrides)

[aleph_minus_one]

> (esp. in comparison to "the normal amount" of GPS/tracking/movement data that smartphones already produce throughout the various apps we all have installed and that are being used on during trainrides)

Many people who are skeptical of tracking don't own a smartphone. Those who nevertheless own one (say, because otherwise their job would become more complicated) often only very selectively switch it on.

[RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm]

Well, having a smartphone is still optional in most countries, I suppose in Germany as well.

Movement on the other hand is a mandatory thing for many people unless you want to sit at home all day...

[_Microft]

We don‘t need to wave the ticket at a card reader to use the bus. We just board and mayyybe, like just once a month, there‘s someone on the bus checking the validity of tickets and fining people if they don‘t have one.

What‘s your point exactly? Your concerns seem to be of very theoretical nature tbh.