I feel your comment, perhaps inadvertently, really describes the whole issue. Privacy has been traded for convenience, bit by bit, app by app, and very few seem to still care about what has been lost along the way.
I include myself in this, I signed up for my auto-renewing subway pass as soon as I could. I worry about this culture of acceptance of convenience over privacy, and I don't feel there is much I can do to stop it even in my own life. All of my friends have Venmo for example; am I going to be the one person they can't easily split bills with? and look like a tin-hatter all the while?
On our train network, you can buy paper ticker anonymously, or you can buy e-tickers with your name on it.
They don't really need your name to reasonably prevent fraud / reuse, they don't even check your name/id. GDPR says you shouldn't collect PII without good cause, yet noone cares to do anything about it.
I include myself in this, I signed up for my auto-renewing subway pass as soon as I could. I worry about this culture of acceptance of convenience over privacy, and I don't feel there is much I can do to stop it even in my own life. All of my friends have Venmo for example; am I going to be the one person they can't easily split bills with? and look like a tin-hatter all the while?