From AAAS. The Privacy Arms Race Authors Software lets you use location-based apps without revealing where you are.
Whether they're looking for nearby restaurants, wondering what to wear, or finding the fastest route, most people allow their smart phones to send their GPS locations to Yelp, AccuWeather, or Google Maps without a second thought. But these data can be shared with advertisers and other third parties that profile users' movement patterns, often without their knowledge.
Data Protection: Betrayed by our own data. 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. Speichern. Tell-all telephone. Betrayed by our own dataMobile 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. Nuclear plants in your neighbourhoodHow many people live near a nuclear power plant in Germany? How many people lives within a radius of 20 kilometres? PISA based Wealth ComparisonHow do families live these days? ZEIT ONLINE analyzed and visualized the data OECD's comprehensive world education ranking report, PISA 2009. A United States of Europe? Malte Spitz - German Politician's Cellphone Records. The German government is currently debating an issue not many in the U.S. may have thought of: how long cellphone providers should retain your personal information.
After all, cellphones histories are a veritable treasure trove of information on our movements and habits, not to mention a meticulous log of whom we contacted. In order to demonstrate how much just six months worth of cellphone data reveals, German politician Malte Spitz released six months of his own cell phone data. With this information publicly available, The Zeit online took the massive Excel spreadsheet and created an amazing visualization of Spitz’s movements from August 2009 to February 2010. The data was augmented with Spitz’s tweets and blog entries. While numbers just look like numbers, watching the little dot zip around Germany is very unsettling. This profile reveals when Spitz walked down the street, when he took a train, when he was in an airplane. (via The Zeit Online)
Your Mobile Phone Spies on You « French News Online Blog. Everyone has one and most people leave them on all the time, but your handy mobile phone is actually a full-time government spy in your pocket.
The government spy in your pocket The full and detailed extent of the data gathered and held by European Telecoms companies on the orders of the EU and member state governments has just been revealed by a German politician … and if you value your privacy, read on, its pretty startling stuff. Malte Spitz, a German Green Party politician, and a campaigner for data privacy and civil rights has recently disclosed just how insidious telecoms data retention by mobile phone operators is. Mr Spitz went to court to force the German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom to hand over six months worth of his phone data and on his blog he recounts how he obtained some of the 35,000 data records on him collected by the operator over a 6 month period.
In turn Mr Spitz supplied the information to the German newspaper ZEIT ONLINE. No related posts. Pisté par son portable, un politicien allemand se rebelle. En Allemagne, Malte Spitz, un responsable des Verts a poursuivi son opérateur téléphonique en justice pour obtenir toutes les données récoltées grâce à son portable.
Le résultat ? Une carte interactive à la fois fascinante et effrayante, puisque les données ont permis de reconstituer une bonne partie de sa vie. La démonstration est encore plus frappante avec cette vidéo réalisée par le site Future Journalism Project. Elle ne porte que sur deux jours dans la vie de Malte Spitz, bien assez cependant pour démontrer qu’un portable permet de suivre toutes vos allées et venues. (Voir la vidéo) Malte Spitz, 26 ans, est membre de l’exécutif des Verts allemands. Comme il le raconte sur son blog, Malte Spitz a voulu tenter une expérience. Localisé plus de 35 000 fois en six mois. Germany Builds Encrypted, Identity-Confirmed Email. Google Translate.