Think about this and I’m going to make it a simple explanation so anyone can understand why the US government has no legitimate, legal or lawful right to any and all information about us.
When you get a cell phone you pay for it.
Along with the cell phone you agree in contract to service with a wireless carrier.
Wireless carrier are what we call Responsible Organizations or RespOrgs. With your service you get a telephone number WHICH belongs to you. In other words, you own the phone, the telephone number and the RespOrg manages your number and the service you contract them for associated with that that number.
So, you fork out some money up front and then every month you fork over money for service you contracted with through a private firm to manage your communications.
Now, when you make a call, text or email, using your fancy new phone that is your private property, using your private number which again, you own, the first transmission signal you send is the ID of your phone, subscriber ID and telephone number.
You own all those as do all the people you communicate with.
When you call them they first time they know it’s you is when they see your telephone number displayed on their phone.
This is called Automatic number identification (ANI). Each phone connect to each other using a means of wink/wink letting each other know and the users there is a connection established.
Whether anyone answers the phone, two devices connected and a message was sent, at a minimum your telephone number but, it may also include a favorite ringtone and picture ID.
This demonstrates further just how much ownership you have over your phone and the information you receive. Further, being able to customize that information, direct calls to another number or send voicemails to text or have text manipulated so that it is machine read back to you.
These things you can do because someone manufactured a phone with these capabilities for end users and for service providers to provide to their customers, who are contracted to them for private service.
No matter how your call is routed within a carriers network or if it transits another carriers network or if it is routed to edge devices who are contracted to the carrier so that the call routing decisions are made automatically based on priorities and decisions that you a private citizen makes as well the decisions of Wireless service providers, which are also owned privately.
They, like you, purchase equipment through various means of financing, barter, trade and outright capital expenditures.
There is no way the government can say they have the right to that which is privately owned.
What truly ticks me off is that my landline phone bill went up a lot since last year. I am paying more to have less privacy. My bill pays someone to track me and not only that, but I also pay for some idiot’s obamaphone.