This is actually really good, because if advertisers have an Verizon API to query the cookies for demographic information, in theory intelligence agencies could

This is actually really good, because if advertisers have an Verizon API to query the cookies for demographic information, in theory intelligence agencies could have an API to query a cookie to see if the device belongs to a U.S. person and stop incidental collection of that stream. Which is what they would do, right? Oh wait, a bad guy could steal your phone. Guess we'd better collect it all. Hey, I guess we could use that cookie for something...