Yes, there are inevitable abuses like rogue police officers secretly tracking their exes or accessing data for dodgy private purposes. Yet if one watches real-life crime shows, one will also see murder cases solved and innocent suspects cleared because cell phone data verified otherwise dubious alibis. On the whole, additional legislation seems likely to further restrict but not elminate cell phone datamining. It is too valuable a tool to lose.
I’ve always known that cell phone location data was being collected and used to solve crimes but I thought law enforcement needed a warrant to use it...
I understand if data is collected it will be abused by people in the government, it’s just to tempting to check out your spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend, neighbor, etc....
If this group has all the data they claim and it sure looks like it, it’s worrying to me that this type of data is available to anyone who has the time and money to look for it...