While video surveillance gets far more attention than cell phone surveillance, overall, 2 recent NY Times articles call out risks with surveilling people via tracking their cell phones:
There is clearly a fundamental advantage of tracking cell phones since virtually every adult carries around a cell phone almost all the time and those cell phones have unique IDs that can be tracked.
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