Did you hear the one about the German politician who sued the phone company to see how much they knew about him? Turns out his cell phone recorded his location 35,000 times over 6 months. That’s once every 7.5 minutes. In response, he released the data, and Zeit Online has mapped it out:
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Technically, this information is part of the service. Most days you get pissed if your phone doesn’t know where you are. The funny part is that they aren’t willing to admit they have this level of information and are storing it. It makes for a pretty sketchy lead-in to considering what else they might be doing with it.
[Zeit Online via Gawker]
