Here are three reasons that make this form of spying validated. Voici trois raisons pour lesquelles cette forme d'espionnage est validée. Keeping lists of the location of cell phones does count as spying.

Phrasal verb spy on someone/something (definition of spying from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press) Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret, confidential, or in some way valuable information. Spying is the act or process of finding out secret information for a country or organization about other countries or organizations. A ten-year sentence for spying.