Well, sure, ASU, but a phone company can't toss you in jail or bring you up on charges based on the information it has about you. Sure, it could abuse that information in other ways, but any abuse the phone co could make of that info could also be made by some unscrupulous govt bureaucrat if s/he had the same info. The unique diff btw the govt and the phone co is that the govt has coercive power and the phone co doesn't. The phone co can only coerce you if it gets govt backup.
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