Researchers have discovered security holes in 5G, 4G and 3G telephony protocols, which can expose a user’s location.
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Spy in the sky? Flying surveillance devices are scooping up Americans’ phone data
The US Marshals Service program uses Cessna aircraft to slurp data from mobile phones in a flying range that covers most of the country’s population. 
Australian police using tower dumps to slurp mass phone data
Australian federal and state police have joined the ranks of mega-data slurpers – namely, the US, where 1 in 4 law enforcement agencies have reportedly used a “tower dump” – ordering phone providers to hand over personal information about thousands of mobile phone users, regardless of whether or not those people are under investigation.
Feds swoop in, snatch mobile phone tracking records away from ACLU
After the Feds seized the surveillance records, US Marshals then moved the physical records 320 miles away, meaning the ACLU wouldn’t be able to learn how, and how extensively, police use snooping devices.