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Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone... by mtgx on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:45AM (#19199217)
The judges are not made aware how many people will be affected by this.

In fact the FBI has often hid the scope of Stingray operations from judges for precisely this reason.

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Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone... by treis on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:01AM (#19199838)
>The judges are not made aware how many people will be affected by this.

Only one person was affected by it. The initial request was for anonymized data and the subsequent request for actual data was made for only one specific person.

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