The country’s largest wireless carriers not only know where you are every time you make a phone call or use your data connection, but they routinely hold onto that location information for months and in some cases years, providing it to law enforcement whether you like it or not, according to carrier letters made public last week by the Federal Communications Commission. [More]
Maybe that’s why they call them “cell” phones…
In a Constitutional system, you could make a case for Fourth AND Fifth Amendment violations without looking too hard. Then again, why should rulers who trample the Second with impunity worry about that?
They can, and in fact do, “man in the middle” intercepts using a device they don’t want people to talk about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker