License plates uniquely identify vehicles. They are physical, optically visible. They can be and are being collected by law enforcement and private enterprise license plate readers feeding ID and location information into data bases.
Cell phone IMSI are analogous to license plates. Radio wave visible and associated with the related owner of the cell phone at probably a greater degree of owner correlation to operator accuracy than license plates. However operator correlation is probably only one hop away from owner if not the owner.
Cell phone IMSI is the conceptual equivalent of putting a license plate on our back. It simply takes a different reader to see it and connect it to who we are and where we are at any given time that it is looked at. That given time may be periodic or real time all the time. It is just a data block in total information all the time.
We don't know when our license plate and its location is being read, recorded and stored.
IMSI.......same, same.
It is said that 80% of the world's population now has a cell phone? I find that hard to believe, maybe true but the USA? Everybody has one.
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