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>The police can request tower ping data, generally by warrant.

Or Trump can just put legal pressure on cell providers and they will bend the knee like everyone else, and CPB can easily have that data without problems.

Lets not pretend that that is the line they won't cross.



Those companies have been selling the data to the government without warrant for quite some time actually. No pressure necessary. Cops have money and Verizon wants it.


Where do the cops get that money? Oh, right, us.




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