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There is a silver lining here. As the government and others become increasingly reliant on using this method of surveillance, they will limit their ability to quickly and effectively conduct other forms of surveillance. Their budget is not limited, and even if it was, people will 'forget' how to do this. Here's a good case: The Millennium Challenge 2002 in which a former commander sank a whole carrier group in an exercise simply by not using modern communications. So, if for example you wanted to one day disappear from this system, it will be much easier than it would have been before as 'old fashioned' detective work will be harder to replicate.