Why bother? They already have access to cell phone location data and meta information. I'm sure in China it is direct access. In the US it is a two-step process

Why bother? They already have access to cell phone location data and meta information. I'm sure in China it is direct access. In the US it is a two-step process. Not that it would make much difference in practice. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130901/23253224379/att-has-employees-embedded-govt-providing-near-realtime-searches-nearly-every-phone-call.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130901/23253224379/att-h... There was a great article in Australia about this a few years back: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/metadata-retention-privacy-phone-will-ockenden/6694152 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/metadata-retention-pr...