No, it's not related at all. Jesus guys, this is not reddit, you don't need all of this to know the location and track a mobile phone. Every carrier in the world can do this with very basic tooling.
That was my first thought too but seems the dates are between 18 and 21 november. If they wanted to track the current widespread protests in Spain, they would have done it right now.
they are of course tracking us right now. This announcement is just an explicit reminder that they can do so, to try to scare the people. The dates are irrelevant.