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In a guest post Lorenz Matzat , editor of ZEIT Online’s Open Data Blog , writes about the background to their online app exploring the issues around data retention by mobile phone companies.
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German politician Malte Spitz went to court in order to obtain all information that his cell phone carrier Deutsche Telekom had about his activity.
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April 1 Update : DW's full-length interview (runtime: 16:18) with Malte Spitz is below.
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Mobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives. One look at our interactive map of data provided by the Green party politician Malte Spitz shows why.
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Am 6. Oktober 2011 habe ich die T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH erneut auf Grundlage von §34 BDSG gebeten, mir schriftlich Auskunft zu erteilen, welche Daten sie zu meiner Nummer bzw. meinem Mobilfunkanschluss gespeichert haben. Es ging dabei insbesondere auch um die Verkehrsdaten die gespeichert werden.Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day.
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But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not.
German Green party member and privacy advocate Malte Spitz wanted to see just how much data T-Mobile Germany was storing about him, so he went after T-Mobile, and after a legal back-and-forth, received 35,831 points of location information spanning as far back as six months (a time period mandated by local law). Of course, there are always services like Foursquare , Google Latitude , and BlackBerry Traffic that make explicit use of gathering and sharing location data, but it’s when that information is being stored without warning that folks might get a bit jumpy. Personally, I find there are only two situations where location data can be used practically by carriers for anything other than figuring out which cell tower you’re connecting two.
Privacy Advocate Gets 35,000 Points of Location from T-Mobile
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Mobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives.