You do not need an account for data collection and identification to take place. There’s plenty of markers that will identify you, an example might be you go through a toll booth that happens to have a camera grabbing license plates which is used by the Department of Transportation but they outsource to company A for the license grabbing software. That company doesn’t sell your information the DOT made sure of that! No, they don’t sell it but they trade it under the guise of “using it for training purposes”. Their partners happen to be Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile who cross reference license plates with cellular GPS coordinates at that particular time.

Owning a phone and driving past a camera was enough to identify you and your vehicle which can and will be sold and with every trivial mundane bit of data collected eventually a picture is painted of you.

Be wary helenslunch, they aren’t out to get you but they are out to sell you.