Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
In this TED talk we get more insight into “privacy”, “self-determination”, “individual freedom” in relation with phone companies.
What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code — a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.