In functional democracies, there is law protecting individual against the government. Meaning that you’ll require a court-order to request the localization of a phone (to the phone provider or applications collecting GPS data). This is (in democratic countries) allowed in criminal matters but not for administrative status matters like immigration.
Pretty sure that if you’re Russian expressing your hate to Putin would at best put you in trouble, and at worst lead to a slow and painful death in a labour camp.
Don’t under-estimate how privileged we are in the West to express our hate for Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Von der Leyen and who ever is the British PM it’s changes so fast that I stopped to follow. Without any legal repercussion
It’s legal in some countries, so I don’t see much risks. They rotty sure you can look up for data from Switzerland, Belgium and Netherlands