[leptons]

The government can also just set up their own cell tracking towers, cut out the middleman.

[danudey]

Or just mandate that the telcos do it and make it illegal to tell anyone about it.

[ruined]

why would they need to do that? that's just how cell towers work. the government can and does also buy the location data on the market like anyone else.

[cyanydeez]

yeah, the important part is that the government via third party surveillance gets much of the domestic spying they need without "technically" breaking the law, even though if they directly did any of the activities they would be breaking the law.

[leptons]

And yet they do that all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_...