I think it is quite a big deal that they did not have data on a single phone number that ventured into the European Union.
I tend to be quite critical of our GDPR, but in this particular case, for this particular commercially available dataset, it has apparently led to some degree of protection.
Strange government intelligence entities would need to use third party data brokers.
One would assume they have a aggregation of all cell phone location data historically with countries with intelligence agreements.
I think it is quite a big deal that they did not have data on a single phone number that ventured into the European Union.
I tend to be quite critical of our GDPR, but in this particular case, for this particular commercially available dataset, it has apparently led to some degree of protection.
a good reminder on how much we can be tracked