from the corruption-by-any-other-name dept There’s some endless, curious tensions within the corrupt Trump administration when it comes to their effort to completely destroy the government’s ability to hold corporations accountable for dodgy, nefarious, or even illegal behavior. Their own, lazy, circular logic and bad faith legal interpretations are creating vast new legal minefields we’ll be untangling for decades. The wireless industry is a prime example. For decades, major wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile collected vast troves of sensitive user location and movement data, then sold access to any random nitwit with two nickels to rub together. The result was a parade of scandals wherein everybody from  stalkers ,  law enforcement  (or people  pretending to be law enforcement ),  car companies , governments (foreign and domestic), and  right wing extremists  all happily abused the data in myriad, dangerous ways never made clear to the end user.…