1.3+ million? That's wholesale surveillance of the American Public. That's a gross violation of privacy, and possibly the constitution. This should be criminal.
Time to ditch the cell phone for anyone that has one. Tracfone still has anonymous phones, buy it with cash from Target, activate it (but don't turn it on) from a public terminal or proxy. Tracfone has a small fine print option to activate it anonymously at the bottom: »
xoom.cc/images/2012/07/0 ··· rKy9.jpg Take a drive, turn on the phone for the first time and initialize it. The reason for that is every phone is GPS tagged at the location it is first setup. In this case, it would be a roaming location and invalid.
Now when your phone comes up on the databases of various agencies it shows 'Unknown UID".. Sure they can eventually figure it out, but not without effort, and people devoted to the task of doing this and this isn't blazingly easy and automated like it is for everyone else. Make them fight for anything from you, and as you do this you help those of us that already do by becoming more 'noise' for them - that is more people that are privacy aware adds further to the privacy.