Canada and UK next the way things are going.
They're both already there.
Canada de-banked the truckers from a few years ago. Non-violent protesting is a no-go in Canada.
The UK just recently imprisoned a female victim of violent crime for SAYING bad things about her attacker. The attacker got off and didn't have to serve a prison sentence for his violent crime. I guess non-violent complaining about your violent attacker is no-go in the UK.
One can insert quite a few jurisdictions in place of "India" here.
The FBI had all they needed 4+ years ago to arrest the so-called "DC Bomber". Cell phone tracking, GPS tracking, and more. They knew who the perp was and they did nothing until the arrest this week.
But man oh man, they sure did not waste any time scooping up grandma because she was a tourist when her cell phone pinged a tower on some street corner in DC.
The US can also de-bank people just like Canada does. We did it just recently with...oh I forget, it was some terrorists or illegals or something. Doesn't matter; we can already do it. The difference is whether or not we have restraint when we don't have probable cause. Under the last administration, that answer was an emphatic "we don't need no probable cause". Under this administration, we'll have to wait and see.
So yes, even the US has been "there" in terms of being jurisdictions where you can be tracked.
India has always been a pain in the ass with these kind of things. First time I went, it was nearly impossible to get a sim card as a tourist for example.
A friend of mine once told me the story of how he was supposed to help build a church or school or some building/structure in some town in India. This was probably 30+ years ago. He's a carpenter-type guy with experience in building houses, cabinetry, and even constructing filming sets for hollywood and elsewhere.
So he arrives at the airport, gets his accommodations and transportation set up, thinking he'll only be there for 3 weeks to a month, and then sets out to talk to the people for whom he was going to build this structure. They needed to go get supplies first. Construction lumber, nails, and so on. So they go to the supply house, which was basically some family's home somewhere. And my buddy's "handler" tells him, "let me do all the talking". They go to this supplier and they have to sit around for hours smoking and talking and whatever.
Then it's time to leave. "Wait, we don't have any supplies!" says my friend. "It's too soon for that," his handler says.
It turns out that either in India or in *THAT PART* of India, the culture is such that you can't just go buy something from somebody. You have to spend time getting to know them (and they, you). Getting to know their families, and so on. It took them weeks just to be able to order the first batch of construction supplies. My friend said to me, "This is why nothing ever gets done in India; nothing ever changes. The culture actively discourages entrepreneurial spirit."
They did finish the job, and it was well done, he said. But it took more than a half-year to do what should have only required a few weeks of work.
Since then, he's had opportunities to go back and build more things for that community, but he has turned them all down. He just says, "I have a family to support. I just can't afford to fly out, pay for accommodations, and only get a month's pay for a project that should require only 3 weeks of work, but ends up needing 8 months to complete."
I'm sure it's not like that in "all" of India. But in some parts of India, they have a cultural inertia that really prevents true progress.
