It's disturbing, indeed. Even moreso to consider, if the government puts a gun to the telecom's figurative head, they can find out: * which people are in the v

It's disturbing, indeed. Even moreso to consider, if the government puts a gun to the telecom's figurative head, they can find out: * which people are in the vicinity * which people "turned off" their phone near the vicinity * which people removed their phone's battery near the vicinity Depending on how paranoid / authoritarian, any of the above or all 3 could make for a good list of people to harass (and that's putting it nicely).