> Who needs to break crypto when you have a baseband processor relay back location, audio and video?
Not exactly a citation for the exact claim, but several people in this thread make the assertion that Qualcomm processors have some kind of location tracking service running on them, running under a parallel OS:
I think that's pretty close. The baseband processor is just one of the many hidden nooks that can run privacy-invading/security-breaking code outside of user view or control.
Also, I think it stands to reason that the baseband processor has everything it needs to at least relay a rough location: the list of in-range towers ~= user location, and it has full control of a channel to relay that information.
[Citation really needed]